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.

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.

Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a...

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.”[Writer’s Digest, September 1961]

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...

She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with....

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts.

Scout- .. Uncle Jack?”Uncle Jack- “Ma’am?”Scout- “What’s a whore-lady?

Regarding people who were difficult to accept or respect, Nelle said, ” Our response to these people represents our earthly test. And I think, that these people enrich the wonder of our lives. It is...

There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without...

But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an...

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.

Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced.

I think there might be a better way,change the law

Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful.”Ain’t hateful, just persuades him- ‘s not like you’d chunk him in the fire,” Jem growled.”How do you know a match don’t hurt him?””Turtles can’t feel...

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.