Quotes from Harper Lee

You're Damn Tootin.

Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that's why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with. (Lee 119)

From now on it'll be everybody less one.

Miss Caroline parecía no darse cuenta que los andrajosos alumnos de la primera clase, los cuales habían cortado algodón y cebado puercos desde que supieron andar, eran inmunes a la literatura de imaginación

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." "The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.

but she knew that her father's presence at the table with a man who spewed filth from his mouth—did that make it less filthy? No. it condoned.

The night-crawlers had retired, but ripe chinaberries drummed on the roof when the wind stirred, and the darkness was desolate with the barking of distant dog.

I will never understand men as long as I live, she said, no longer in love with Henry.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view- Sir? -until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

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

Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house's yo' company, and don't ... remarking on their ways like you was so high and mighty. Yo' folks might be better ... bu tit don't count for nothin' the way you're discracin' 'em.

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.

the same families married the same families until the members of the community looked faintly alike.

BaÅŸka insanlar?n yüzüne bakabilmek için ilk önce kendi yüzüne bakabilmelisin. ÇoÄŸunluÄŸa baÄŸl? olmayan tek ÅŸey insan?n vicdan?d?r.

Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. It's because he wants to stay inside.

Had she been able to think, Jean Louise might have prevented events to come by considering the day's occurrences in terms of a recurring story as old as time: the chapter which concerned her began two hundred years ago and was played out in a proud society the bloodiest war and harshest peace in modern history could not destroy, returning, to be played out again on private ground in the twilight of civilization no wars and no peace could save.

Your name's longer'n you are.

Biliyor musun, bir cumartesi günü birkaç tanesi ormandan ç?k?p geldi, buradan geçerken bana çiçeklerimin ve benim cehenneme gideceÄŸimizi söyledi. Çiçeklerinin de mi? Evet, hanfendi. Benimle birlikte onlar da cehennemde yanacakm??.

It's hard to explain - ignorant, trashy people use it when they think somebody's favoring Negroes over and above themselves. It's slipped into usage with some people like ourselves, when they want a common, ugly term to label somebody....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.

Our nightmare had gone with daylight, everything would come out alright.

Atticus, davay? kazanacak m?y?z? Hay?r, tatl?m. O zaman neden... Daha baÅŸlamadan yüz y?l önce davay? kaybetmiÅŸ olmam?z demek kazanmaya çal??mayaca??z anlam?na gelmez. dedi Atticus.

There are just some kind of men who- who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

It's a sin to kill a mockingbird […] Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, 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.