Harper Lee Quotes

I do my best to love everybody...I'm hard put,sometimes- baby,its never an insult o be called what s...

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read

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

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

They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children w...

Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's ...

There are just some kind of men who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned t...

I wanted you to see something about her—I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting...

I wanted you see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun ...

Alexandra had been married for thirty-three years; if it had made any impression on her one way or a...

You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.

You confused your father with God. You never saw him as a man with a man’s heart, and a man’s failin...

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rai...

You deny them hope... You are telling them that Jesus loves them, but not much.

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be ...

I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers...

We came to the street light in the corner, and I wondered how many times Dill stood there hugging th...

Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.

Honey, the sun rises and sets with that Bill of hers. Everything he says is Gospel. She loves her ma...

They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman.You are telling them Jesus...

If a man says to you, "This is the truth," and you believe him, and you discover what he says is not...

I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it eno...

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be heany colour of the rain...

The only thing I'm afraid of about this country is that it's government will someday become so monst...

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rai...

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

Mary Webster was on the blower. Her advance agents saw Hank and me swimming in the middle of the riv...

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

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

Dill was in hearty agreement with this plan of action. Dill was becoming something of a trail anyway...

The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. Whe...

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)......

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

...but before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't ...

In their own way, Tom Robinson's manners were as good as Atticus's

Scout- .. Uncle Jack?"Uncle Jack- "Ma'am?"Scout- "What's a whore-lady?

Don't you oh well me,sir," Miss Maudie replied, recognizing Jem's fatalistic noises, "you are not ol...

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and see it throug...

As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place h...

I do wish this time you'd try to dress better while you're home. Folks in town get the wrong impress...

Miss Gates is a nice lady, ain't she?"Why sure," said Jem. "I liked her when I was in her room."She ...

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endle...

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but i know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bl...

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

...summer was the swiftness with which Dill would reach up and kiss me when Jem was not looking, the...

They had never been able to sustain fifteen minutes’ conversation with one another without advancing...

I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days.

The white supremacists are really pretty smart. If they can't scare us with the essential inferiorit...

When Henry handed her a cup of punch she whispered, "If you want to go on with the seniors or anythi...

He was letting you break your icons one by one. he was letting you reduce him to the status of a hum...

Something is wrong with me, it's something about me. it has to be me because all those people cannot...

Autumn was her happiest season. There was an expectancy about its sounds and shapes: the distant thu...

As Kipling said, that’s another story...

I mean this: every time I come home, I feel like I'm coming back to the world, and when I leave Maco...

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where rea...

I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down ...

(...) when a man's looking down the double barrel of a shotgun, he picks up the first weapon he can ...

It was a place where, if troubles did not vanish, they were made bearable.

No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just get...

We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe. Some people ar...

How could this be so, I wondered, as I read Mr. Underwood's editorial. Senseless killing--Tom had be...

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you kn...

So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process.

People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for, and they have a right to subj...

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it throug...

But in the absence of eye-witness there's always a doubt, sometimes only the shadow of a doubt. The ...

Whether Maycomb knows it or not, we're paying the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to ...

She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a co...

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

Let the dead bury the dead...

Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.”“I ...

If we followed our feelings all the time, we'd be like cats chasin' their tails.

There are just some kind of men who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned t...

There was nowhere to go, but I turned to go and met Atticus's vest front. I buried my head in it and...

But before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

A boy trudged down the sidewalk dragging a fishing pole behind him. A man stood waiting with his han...

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

If he’s not he should be by now. The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens...

It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor tha...

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was...

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer...

He might have hurt me a little,' Atticus conceded, 'but sn, you'll understand folks a little better ...

Things are always better in the morning.

She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there...

First of all," he said, "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with ...

There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thin...

Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was slee...

Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal (...). There is a tendency (...) for certa...

Our mother died when I was two, so I never felt her absence. She was a Graham from Montgomery; Attic...

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not a...

Naw, Jem. I think that there is just one kind of folks. Folks."Jen turned and punched his pillow. WH...

Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house's yo' comp'ny, and don't you let me catch...

Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine ...

Boo and I walked up the steps to the porch. His fingers found the doorknob. He gently released my ha...

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by...

I willed myself to stay awake, but the rain was so soft and the room was so warm and his voice was s...

Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep i...

It's not time to worry yet

Then Mr. Underwood's meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save...