Quotes from Harper Lee

Jean Louise rubbed her nose. "I called you some pretty grim things," she said. Atticus said, "I can take anything anybody calls me so long as it's not true.

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,' said Atticus.

She was always ordering me out of the kitchen, asking me why I couldn't behave as well as Jem when she knew he was older, and calling me home when I wasn't ready to come. Our battles were epic and one-sided. Calpurnia always won, mainly because Atticus always took her side. She had been with us ever since Jem was born, and I had felt her tyrannical presence as long as I could remember.

He was out of his mind," said Atticus. "Don't like to contradict you, Mr. Finch—wasn't crazy—mean as hell. Low-down skunk with enough liquor in him to make him brave enough to kill children. He'd never have met you face to face.

I told Jem if he set fire to the Radley house I was going to tell Atticus on him.

Jem, how can you hate Hitler so bad an' then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home

Well, said Miss Stephanie, I thought I might just look in at the courthouse , to see what Atticus's up to. Better be careful he doesn't hand you a subpoena. We asked Miss Maudie to elucidate: she said Miss Stephanie seemed to know so much about the case she might as well be called on to testify.

Do you itch, Jem?" I asked as politely as I could. He did not answer. "Come on in, Jem," I said. "After while.

Jean Louise, 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 stovewood or a citizens' council." "That

Courage is) 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.

As Kipling said, that's another story...

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win," Atticus said.

I'm little but I'm old

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.

something's wrong with me, it's something about me. It has to be because all these people cannot have changed.

luchamos contra nuestros amigos. Pero tenlo presente, por muy mal que se ponga la cosa, siguen siendo nuestros amigos, esté es nuestro hogar.

I wonder what would happen if the South had a 'Be Kind to the Niggers Week'?

Cry about the hell white people give colored folks

Well, he can make somebody's will so airtight can't anybody meddle with it.

Chcel som ti ukázaÃ…Â¥, ?o je opravdivá odvaha, a nie Ã…Â¥a utvrdiÃ…Â¥ v presved?ení, že odvaha znamená ?loveka s puÅ¡kou v ruke. Odvaha je: pustiÃ…Â¥ sa do boja, aj ke? vopred vieÅ¡, že si porazený, a napriek tomu vytrvaÃ…Â¥ v boji až do konca. Zriedka zvíÃ…Â¥azíÅ¡, ale niekedy sa ti to podarí.

Conceived in mistrust, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created evil.

You aren't really a nigger-lover then, are you?' 'I certainly am. I do my best to love everybody

Conservative resistance to change, that's all

unfathomable to the most experienced prophets in Maycomb County, autumn turned to winter that year. We had two weeks of the coldest weather since 1885, Atticus said. Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasons would change: Jem and I were burdened with the guilt of contributing to the aberrations of nature, thereby causing unhappiness to our neighbors and discomfort to ourselves.