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Harper Lee
50 quotes
Quotes
- “The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have ...”
- “Each child was supposed to clip an item from a newspaper, absorb its contents, and reveal them to the class. This practi...”
- “I think I'll be a clown when I get grown," said Dill. "Yes, sir, a clown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can d...”
- “She's like a national treasure. She's someone who has made a difference … with this book. The book is still as strong as...”
- “And it's certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from ...”
- “I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is ...”
- “As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impressio...”
- “Folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates 'em. You're not gonna change any of th...”
- “Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while,...”
- “...he said if enough people-a stadium full, maybe-were to concentrate on one thing, such as setting a tree afire in the ...”
- “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's...”
- “Letter to the editor of The Richmond News Leader (14 January 1966), in response to the Hanover County School Board's dec...”
- “An' they chased him 'n' never could catch him 'cause they didn't know what he looked like, an' Atticus, when they finall...”
- “Veronique Peck, widow of Gregory Peck, as quoted in "Harper Lee raises her low profile for a friend; The author of 'To K...”
- “They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can li...”
- “Slowly but surely I began to see the pattern of questions: from questions that Mr.Gilmer did not deem sufficiently irrel...”
- “So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals ...”
- “When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are childre...”
- “Apparently, Mayella's recital had given her confidence, but it was not her father's brash kind: there was something stea...”
- “There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no m...”
- “Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffe...”
- “When the new wore off his grandfather's watch, and carrying it became a day's burdensome task, Jem no longer felt the ne...”
- “Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Ju...”
- “Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention ...”
- “She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill invo...”
- “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin an...”
- “It's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it does...”
- “Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were i...”
- “It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who...”
- “In the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth a...”
- “Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to unde...”
- “I remember the lasting impression that Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird had on me. I read that book again every decade...”
- “That's because you can't hold something in your mind but a little while, said Jem. It's different with grown folks, we-”
- “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
- “On why she has done her best creative thinking while playing golf, as quoted in Time (12 May 1980)”
- “Well if you don't want me to grow up talkin' that way, why do you send me to school?”
- “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
- “I crossed a threshold of reader pride after finishing "To Kill a Mockingbird.”
- “...before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.”
- “Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.”
- “People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.”
- “I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
- “Jean Louise (Scout) Finch & Atticus Finch”
- “To Kill a Mockingbird quotes and analysis”
- “Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”
- “Atticus Finch & Maudie Atkinson”
- “Epigraph, quoting Charles Lamb”
- “Jean Louise (Scout) Finch”
- “Amy Tan interview (2013)”
- “...brown but backwards”