Quotes by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable. — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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 — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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 — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were i — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Atticus, he was real nice.""Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them. — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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 — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Naw, Jem. I think that there is just one kind of folks. Folks."Jen turned and punched his pillow. WHen he settle back hi — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.”“I ain’t cynical, Miss — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a trut — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncr — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to. — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
How could this be so, I wondered, as I read Mr. Underwood's editorial. Senseless killing--Tom had been given due process — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal (...). There is a tendency (...) for certain people to use thi — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of d — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
First of all," he said, "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird