With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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.
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.
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.
Atticus, he was real nice.””Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don’t already know the answer to.
Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
You deny them hope… You are telling them that Jesus loves them, but not much.
Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself…It’s a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.
Don’t you oh well me,sir,” Miss Maudie replied, recognizing Jem’s fatalistic noises, “you are not old enough to appreciate what I said.
Something is wrong with me, it’s something about me. it has to be me because all those people cannot have changed.
He was letting you break your icons one by one. he was letting you reduce him to the status of a human being.
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.
People have a habit of doing everyday things even under the oddest conditions.
If we followed our feelings all the time we´d be like cats chasin´ their tails.
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.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read
She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
…baby, it’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you. So don’t let Mrs Dubose get you down. She had enough troubles or her own.
Alexandra had been married for thirty-three years; if it had made any impression on her one way or another, she never showed it.
We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.
If we followed our feelings all the time, we’d be like cats chasin’ their tails.
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 when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.- Atticus Finch
Thought you could kill my Snow-on-the-Mountain, did you? Well, Jessie says that the top’s growing back out. Next time you’ll know how to do it right, won’t you? You’ll pull it up by the roots, won’t you?
People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for, and they have a right to subject their children to it.
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.
I just know Maycomb. I’m not in the least sensitive about it, but good Lord, I’m certainly aware of it.
So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process.
Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.
We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.
Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions.
There are just some kind of men 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.
I mean this: every time I come home, I feel like I’m coming back to the world, and when I leave Macomb it’s like leaving the world.
Boo and I walked up the steps to the porch. His fingers found the doorknob. He gently released my hand, opened the door, enter inside, and shut the door behind him. I never saw him again.
Whatever she says to you, it’s your jobnot to let her make you mad.
The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.
I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down the middle and say here is this justice and there is that justice and make me understand the difference.
They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn’t make them subhuman.You are telling them Jesus loves them, but not much.
One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can’t do anything about them.
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 man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire.
The only thing I’m afraid of about this country is that its government will someday become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampled underfoot, and then it wouldn’t be worth living in
But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
There are just some kind of men who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.
Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscience.
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.
I do my best to love everybody…I’m hard put,sometimes- baby,its never an insult o be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is,it doesn’t hurt you.
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.
…summer was the swiftness with which Dill would reach up and kiss me when Jem was not looking, the longing we sometimes felt each other feel. With him life was routine; without him life was unbearable.
Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.
…but before I can live with other folks, I’ve got to live with myself.The one thing that doesn’t abide by mojority rule is a person’s conscience.
…but 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.
I willed myself to stay awake, but the rain was so soft and the room was so warm and his voice was so deep and his knee was so snug that I slept.
I think there might be a better way,change the law
The white supremacists are really pretty smart. If they can’t scare us with the essential inferiority line, they’ll wrap it in a miasma of sex, because that’s the only thing they know is feared in our fundamentalist hearts down here.
I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetuated fraud against himself.
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.
As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he’ll look for his lessons.
Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
If he’s not he should be by now. The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets—
In their own way, Tom Robinson’s manners were as good as Atticus’s
She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick
Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts.
It was a place where, if troubles did not vanish, they were made bearable.
I do wish this time you’d try to dress better while you’re home. Folks in town get the wrong impression of you. They think you are–ah–slumming.
When Henry handed her a cup of punch she whispered, “If you want to go on with the seniors or anything I’ll be alright.”Henry smiled at her. “You’re my date, Scout.
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be heany colour of the rainbow, but people have way to carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way to carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
(…) when a man’s looking down the double barrel of a shotgun, he picks up the first weapon he can find to defend himself, be it a stone or a stick of stove wood or a citizens’ council.
I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin’ after you.
It ain’t time to worry yet. I’ll let you know when.
I wanted you see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days.
The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I did not die, I crammed it into my mouth: Wrigley’s Double Mint.
They’ve done it before and they’ll do it again and when they do it — seems that only the children weep. Good night.
Scout- .. Uncle Jack?”Uncle Jack- “Ma’am?”Scout- “What’s a whore-lady?
They had never been able to sustain fifteen minutes’ conversation with one another without advancing irreconcilable points of view, invigorating in friendships, but in close blood relations producing only uneasy cordiality.
There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn’t be fair if they tried.
Dill was in hearty agreement with this plan of action. Dill was becoming something of a trail anyways, following Jem about… He only grew closer to Jem. (Lee 55)
You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.
Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
Mary Webster was on the blower. Her advance agents saw Hank and me swimming in the middle of the river last night with no clothes on.H’rm, said Atticus. He touched his glasses. I hope you weren’t doing the backstroke.
I never expected any sort of success with ‘Mockingbird’… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.