Quotes from Harper Lee

My Lord, Aunt Stephanie, you almost gave me a heart attack!

Atticus sometimes said that one way to tell whether a witness was lying or telling the truth was to listen rather than watch.

Mr. Finch, if you was a nigger like me, you'd be scared, too.

One time I asked her to have a chew and she said no thanks, that - chewing gum cleaved to her palate and rendered her speechless, said Jem carefully. Doesn't that sound nice?

La seule chose qui ne doive pas céder à la loi de la majorité est la conscience de l'individu

One does not love breathing.

You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk one.

To kill a mockingbird is a sin

if you can learn a simple trick, you'll get along a lot better with all kind of folks.

I'm no different from any other woman, and the wrong man would turn me into a screamin' shrew in record time.

People have a habit of doing everyday things even under the oddest conditions.

Las personas que están en sus cabales no se enorgullecen de sus talentos

We're the safest folks in the world, said Miss Maudie. We're so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we've got men like Atticus to go for us.

As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else left for us to learn, except possibly algebra.

It ain't time to worry yet. I'll let you know when.

I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but i know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird..... Mockingbirds don't do one thing to but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's garden, 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.

Dill Büyünce palyaço olaca??m, dedi. Jem ve ben bakakald?k. Evvet! Palyaço. Ä°nsanlara gülmenin d???nda bir ÅŸey yapm?yorum. Onun için bir sirke girip kat?lana dek güleceÄŸim. Sen ÅŸa??rm??s?n Dill, dedi Jem. Palyaçolar üzgündür. Ä°nsanlar onlara güler.

para poder vivir con otras personas tengo que poder vivir conmigo mismo. La única cosa que no se rige por la regla de la mayoría es la conciencia de uno. Cuando

S?fatlar? ç?kar?rsan gerçekler kal?r.

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 you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

It's like bein' a caterpillar in a cocoon, that's what it is ... Like somethin' asleep wrapped up in a warm place. I always thought Maycomb folks were the best folks in the world, least that's what they seemed like

Alexandra was one of those people who had gone through life at no cost to themselves; had she been obliged to pay any emotional bills during her earthly life, Jean Louise could imagine her stopping at the check-in desk in heaven and demanding a refund.

I suggested that one could be a ray of sunshine in pants just as well, but Aunty said that one had to behave like a sunbeam, that I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.

The Lord never sends you more than you can bear—