Harper Lee Quotes
-
Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
-
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
-
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
-
From now on it’ll be everybody less one-
-
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-
Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.
-
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
-
And it's certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. I don't know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their father can hit. Of course he shouldn't, but he'll never change his ways. Are you going to take out your disapproval on his children?
-
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
-
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
-
Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.
-
When the new wore off his grandfather’s watch, and carrying it became a day’s burdensome task, Jem no longer felt the necessity of ascertaining the hour every five minutes.
-
As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.
-
I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
-
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 ever lived.
-
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
-
he said if enough people-a stadium full, maybe-were to concentrate on one thing, such as setting a tree afire in the woods, that the tree would ignite of its own accord. I toyed with the idea of asking everyone below to concentrate on setting Tom Robinson free, but
-
'An' they chased him 'n' never could catch him 'cause they didn't know what he looked like, an' Atticus, when they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those things... Atticus, he was real nice...' 'Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.'
-
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
-
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 a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.
-
Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.
-
Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.
-
Apparently, Mayella's recital had given her confidence, but it was not her father's brash kind: there was something stealthy about hers, like a steady-eyed cat with a twitchy tail.