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.

It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.

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...

It’s not necessary to tell all you know. It’s not ladylike–in the second place, folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do.

People are certainly entiteled to think that I’m wrong, and they are entiteled to full respect for their opinions. But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The only...

Maybe he doesn’t have anywhere to run off to…

Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It’s best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I’ll take over from here and try to undo the damage–

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...

They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions… but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide...

The way you tell it, it is.

We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.

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.

Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house;...

Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal (…). There is a tendency (…) for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I...

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The thing is, what I’m tryin‘ to say is—they do get on a lot better without me, I can’t help them any. They ain’t mean. They buy me everything I want, but it’s now—you’ve-got-it-go-play-with-it. You’ve...

First of all,” he said, “if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from...

I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but i know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to...

She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.

Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women – black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race...

Thought you could kill my Snow-on-the-Mountain, did you? Well, Jessie says that the top’s growing back out. Next time you’ll know how to do it right, won’t you? You’ll pull it up by the roots,...

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

They’ve done it before and they’ll do it again and when they do it — seems that only the children weep. Good night.

But sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a bottle of whiskey the the hand . . .

One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can’t do anything about them.

There was indeed a caste system in Maycomb, but to my mind it worked this way: the older citizens, the present generation of people who had lived side by side for years and years, were...

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

People have a habit of doing everyday things even under the oddest conditions.