Kill A Mockingbird Mockingbird Quotes by Harper Lee, Zsa Zsa Gabor and many others.
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father’s passin’.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
This time we aren’t fighting the Yankees, we’re fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they’re still our friends and this is still our home.
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Things are always better in the morning.
Let the dead bury the dead.
I never expected any sort of success with ‘Mockingbird’… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
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.
Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was.
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 generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
…but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
Atticus, he was real nice.” “Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
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.
