Quotes from Harper Lee

Kamu tidak akan pernah bisa mengerti seseorang sampai kamu bisa melihat sesuatu dari sudut pandangnya, merasuki tubuh dibalik kulitnya dan menjalani kehidupan dengan cara pandang nya

That's the one thing about here, the South, you've missed. You'd be amazed if you knew how many people are on your side, if side's the right word. You're no special case. The woods are full of people like you, but we need some more of you." She

Nobody knew what form of intimidation Mr. Radley employed to keep Boo out of sight...

Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan, but it was a political organization more than anything. Besides, they couldn't find anybody to scare. They paraded by Mr. Sam Levy's house one night, but Sam just stood on his porch and told 'em things had come to a pretty pass, he'd sold 'em the very sheets on their backs. Sam made 'em so ashamed of themselves they went away.

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.

He likened Tom's death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children

enjoyed everything I disapproved of, and disliked my ingenuous diversions.

Sometimes, it's never an insult to be called what someone thinks is a bad name.

La coscienza è l'unica cosa che non debba conformarsi al volere della maggioranza.

somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers.

You know rape's a capital offense in Alabama," said Atticus. "Yessir

There was no point to say you were sorry if you weren't.

They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions," said Atticus, "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.

Mr. Nathan, Mr. Arthur, mad dog's comin'! Mad dog's comin'!

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.

You may be sorry, but I'm proud of you." She looked up and saw her father beaming at her. "What?" "I said I'm proud of you.

Come hanno potuto, come hanno potuto fare una cosa simile? Non lo so, ma l'hanno fatto. L'hanno fatto prima e l'hanno fatto stasera e lo faranno ancora, e quando lo fanno... pare che piangano solo i bambini

To all parties present and participating in the life of the county, however, Alexandra was the last of her kind: she had river-boat, boarding-school manners; let any moral come along and she would uphold it; she was a disapprover; she was an incurable gossip.

There goes the meanest man ever God blew breath into," murmured Calpurnia, and she spat meditatively into the yard.

She was never bored, and given the slightest chance she would exercise her royal prerogative: she would arrange, advise, caution, and warn.

I think the thing that I most deplore about American writing… is a lack of craftsmanship. It comes right down to this — the lack of absolute love for language, the lack of sitting down and working a good idea into a gem of an idea.

Love's the only thing in this world that is unequivocal.

Honey, the sun rises and sets with that Bill of hers. Everything he says is Gospel. She loves her man. Is that what loving your man is? Has a lot to do with it. Jean Louise said, You mean losing your own identity, don't you? In a way, yes, said Henry. Then I doubt if I shall ever marry.

We don't write in the first grade, we print. You won't learn to write until you're in the third grade.