Quotes from Harper Lee

you better go warn your younger friends that if they want to preserve Our Way of Life, it begins at home. It doesn't begin with the schools or the churches or anyplace but home.

The handful of people in this town who say that fair play is not marked White Only; the handful of people who say a fair trial is for everybody, not just us; the handful of people with enough humility to think, when they look at a Negro, there but for the Lord's kindness am I.

Chi ha una mente saggia non si inorgoglisce delle proprie doti

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. So don't let Mrs. Dubose get you down. She has enough troubles of her own.

The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower.

The only thing in America that is still unique in this tired world is that a man can go as far as his brains will take him or he can go to hell if he wants to

I did not understand how he could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic.

As pessoas que estão no seu perfeito juízo nunca se orgulham dos seus talentos.

You never went to school and you do all right, so I'll just stay home too. You can teach me like Grandaddy taught you 'n' Uncle Jack." "No

Querida, nunca pode tomar como um insulto que as pessoas te chamem nomes feios. Só mostra até que ponto essa pessoa é pobre de espírito, mas não pode te magoar.

Atticus Finch's a deep reader, a mighty deep reader.

They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman. You are telling them Jesus loves them, but not much.

No, tutti devono imparare, nessuno nasce sapendo già le cose. Walter è intelligentissimo, soltanto rimane indietro perché a volte deve andare nei campi ad aiutare suo padre; ma è in gamba lo stesso. No Jem, io credo che la gente sia di un tipo solo: gente, e basta!

Jean Louise, when I said that I wasn't referring to us." "Who were you talking about, then?" "I was talking about the—you know, the trashy people. The men who keep Negro women and that kind of thing.

Henry, how can you live with yourself?" "It's comparatively easy. Sometimes I just don't vote my convictions, that's all.

Perhaps our forefathers were wise.

Uncle Jimmy present or Uncle Jimmy absent made not much difference, he never said anything.

Melbourne said once, that the only real duties of government were to prevent crime and preserve contracts, to which I will add one thing since I find myself reluctantly in the twentieth century: and to provide for the common defense." "That's a cloudy statement." "Indeed it is. It leaves us with so much freedom.

I thought we were just people. I have no idea.

My scalp jumped. I stuck my head around the corner. "Sir?" "Go to bed.

I felt the starched walls of a pink cotton penitentiary closing in on me, and for the second time in my life I thought of running away.

Gli usignoli non fanno nient'altro che donare musica agli uomini. Non divorano gli orti della gente, né fanno il nido nei covoni; non fanno altro che cantare per noi con tutta l'anima. Ecco perché è peccato uccidere un usignolo.

Coragem é sabermos que estamos perdendo a partida, mas recomeçar na mesma e avançar incondicionalmente até ao fim.

Relax, son," Atticus had told him in one of his rare comments on her. "Don't push her. Let her go at her own speed. Push her and every mule in the county'd be easier to live with.