Quotes from Harper Lee

she'd already gotten me in trouble once today: she had taught me to write and it was all her fault.

he's freed himself from every stigma, but he sits nursing his hangover of hatred….

Nobody knew what form of intimidation Mr Radley employed to keep Boo out of sight, but Jem figured that Mr Radley kept him chained to the bed most of the time. Atticus said no, it wasn't that sort of thing, that there were other ways of making people into ghosts.

Ladies seemed to live in faint horror of men, seemed unwilling to approve wholeheartedly of them. But I liked them. There was something about them, no matter how much they cussed and drank and gambled and chewed; no matter how undelectable they were, there was something about them that I instinctively liked

We couldn't operate a single day without Cal, have you ever thought of that? You think about how much Cal does for you, and you mind her, you hear?

Nowadays he's got more than he ever had in his life, he has everything but breeding, he's freed himself from every stigma, but he sits nursing his hangover of hatred. . . 

Bootleggers caused enough trouble in the Quarters, but women were worse. 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.

Bir askerin tehlikeli, may?nl? bir bölgeden geçmesini saÄŸlayan türden bir cesaret deÄŸil bu. O, mecbur olduÄŸu için toplad??? bir cesarettir. Bu cesaret türüyse -ÅŸey, bir insan?n yaÅŸama azminin, kendini koruma içgüdüsünün bir parças?d?r. Bazen yaÅŸayabilmemiz için az?c?k öldürmemiz gerekir.

that Tom had a good chance of going free, or at least of having a new trial.

It's slipped into usage with somepeople like ourselves, when they want a common, ugly term to label somebody.

First," he said dispassionately, "hold your tongue. Don't argue with a man, especially when you know you can beat him. Smile a lot. Make him feel big. Tell him how wonderful he is, and wait on him.

Yes indeed, what has this world cometo when a Finch goes against his raising? I'll tell you!" She put her hand to her mouth. When she drew it away, it trailed a long silver thread of saliva. "Your father's no better than the niggers and trash he works for!

Dr. Finch to observe absently and audibly one Sunday: We asked for bread and they gave us a Stone. [Rev.] Mr. Stone had long been suspected of liberal tendencies.

I wanted you to see something about her-- 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. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.

I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Jem, I ain't ever heard of a nigger snowman,' I said.

Coragem é fazer uma coisa mesmo estando derrotado antes de começar - prosseguiu Atticus. - E mesmo assim ir até o fim, apesar de tudo. Você raramente vai vencer, mas às vezes vai conseguir;

She had an odd feeling that time had passed her by

es posible pararle los pies a una turba, simplemente porque continúan siendo seres humanos.

The boy stood up. He was the filthiest human I had ever seen. His neck was dark gray, the backs of his hands were rusty, and his fingernails were black deep into the quick.

I do my best to love everybody... I'm hard put, sometimes - baby, 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.

She said: "The question, gentlemen—is one of liquor; You ask for guidance—this is my reply: He says, when tipsy, he would thrash and kick her, Let's make him tipsy, gentlemen, and try!" Alexandra was not amused. She was extremely annoyed.

multiplied—the South went through the Reconstruction with only one permanent political change: there was no more slavery. The people became no less than what they were to begin with—in some cases they became horrifyingly more.

Atticus's wisdom; he was growing old and he wanted to die safe in the knowledge that his daughter could fend for herself.