In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one’s mind incapable of definite purpose.

La seule chose qui ne doive pas céder à la loi de la majorité est la conscience de l’individu

We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.

The witnesses for the state, with the exception of the sheriff of Maycomb County, have presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this court, in the cynical confidence that their testimony would not be doubted, confident...

With him, life was routine, without him, life was unbearable.

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.

In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama

You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that’s the way I want to live.

We can’t always have our druthers.

She was the bravest person I ever knew.

I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin’ after you.

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the...

She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.

That’s just their way,” about the Ewells. Maycomb gave them Christmas baskets, welfare money, and the back of its hand. Tom Robinson was probably the only person who was ever decent to her. But she...

With him was routine, but without him it was unbearable.

Tidak Jem, kukira hanya ada satu jenis manusia. Manusia.(Jem) Pikirku juga begitu, saat aku seusiamu. Kalau hanya ada satu jenis manusia, mengapa mereka tidak bisa rukun? Kalau mereka semua sama, mengapa mereka merepotkan diri untuk...

Don’t matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house’s yo’ comp’ny, and don’t you let me catch you remarkin’ on their ways like you was so high and and mighty! Yo’ folks might...

Atticus, he was real nice.””Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

Peki, niçin bize en gizli sırrını açmıştı? Nedenini sordum. -Çünkü siz çocuksunuz. Anlarsınız.

Things are always better in the morning.

I was more at home in my father’s world. People like Mr. Heck Tate did not trap you with innocent questions to make fun of you; even Jem was not highly critical unless you said...

Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.

I was not so sure, but 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...

I certainly am. 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...

Don’t you oh well me,sir,” Miss Maudie replied, recognizing Jem’s fatalistic noises, “you are not old enough to appreciate what I said.

Then Mr. Underwood’s meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men’s hearts Atticus had no case.

We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe. Some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it, some men...

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

A boy trudged down the sidewalk dragging a fishing pole behind him. A man stood waiting with his hands on his hips. Summertime, and his children played in the front yard with their friend, enacting...

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.

It’s not time to worry yet

Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.

Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions.

No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her afterwards.” – Atticus Finch

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Whether Maycomb knows it or not, we’re paying the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.”Who?’ Aunt Alexandra never knew she was echoing her twelve-year-old nephew.’The...

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a...

Jack: Atticus, you’ve never laid a hand on her.Atticus: I admit that. So far I’ve been able to get by with threats. Jack, she minds me as well as she can. Doesn’t come up to...

Dill was in hearty agreement with this plan of action. Dill was becoming something of a trail anyways, following Jem about… He only grew closer to Jem. (Lee 55)

It ain’t time to worry yet. I’ll let you know when.

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself…It’s a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.

He means take a bath. See there, I told you he wouldn’t bother you.

I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers. In the long hours of church–was it then I learned? I could not remember not being able to...

I do my best to love everybody…I’m hard put,sometimes- baby,its never an insult o be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is,it doesn’t hurt you.

I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetuated fraud against himself.

Naw, Jem. I think that there is just one kind of folks. Folks.”Jen turned and punched his pillow. WHen he settle back his face was cloudy. He was going in to one of his declines,...

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...

There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn’t be fair if they tried.

Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon after their three...