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To Kill a Mockingbird QUOTES

To Kill a Mockingbird QUOTES

1 " With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable. "

― Harper Lee , To Kill a Mockingbird

2 " 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 doesn’t hurt you. "

― Harper Lee , To Kill a Mockingbird

3 " 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. "

― Harper Lee , To Kill a Mockingbird

4 " Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in. "

― Harper Lee , To Kill a Mockingbird

5 " 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

6 " 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 a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash. "

― Harper Lee , To Kill a Mockingbird

7 " Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.”

“I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?”

“The way you tell it, it is. "

― Harper Lee , To Kill a Mockingbird

8 " Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men. "

― Harper Lee , To Kill a Mockingbird

9 " Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results. "

― Harper Lee , To Kill a Mockingbird

10 " 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 corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. "

― Harper Lee , To Kill a Mockingbird

11 " When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em. "

― Harper Lee , To Kill a Mockingbird

12 " 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

13 " 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

14 " How could this be so, I wondered, as I read Mr. Underwood's editorial. Senseless killing--Tom had been given due process of law to the day of his death; he had been tried openly and convicted by twelve good men and true; my father had fought for him all the way. Then Mr. Underwood's meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed. "

― Harper Lee , To Kill a Mockingbird

15 " Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal (...). There is a tendency (...) for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious-because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe-some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others-some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men. "

― Harper Lee , To Kill a Mockingbird

16 " In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose. "

― Harper Lee , To Kill a Mockingbird

17 " I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. "

― Harper Lee , To Kill a Mockingbird

18 " Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen. "

― Harper Lee , To Kill a Mockingbird

19 " Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. "

― Harper Lee , To Kill a Mockingbird

20 " Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read "

― Harper Lee , To Kill a Mockingbird