Harper Lee Quotes

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

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

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

Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced.

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

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

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

People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for, and they have a right to subject their children to it.

I just know Maycomb. I'm not in the least sensitive about it, but good Lord, I'm certainly aware of it.

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

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.

There are just some kind of men who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

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

Boo and I walked up the steps to the porch. His fingers found the doorknob. He gently released my hand, opened the door, enter inside, and shut the door behind him. I never saw him again.

Whatever she says to you, it’s your jobnot to let her make you mad.

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

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

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 desire.

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

There are just some kind of men who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one.

Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscience.

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.

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.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

We can't always have our druthers.

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

...but before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself.The one thing that doesn't abide by mojority rule is a person's conscience.

...but before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

I willed myself to stay awake, but the rain was so soft and the room was so warm and his voice was so deep and his knee was so snug that I slept.

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

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

She was the bravest person I ever knew.

As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he'll look for his lessons.

If he’s not he should be by now. The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets—

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

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

Let the dead bury the dead...

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

I do wish this time you'd try to dress better while you're home. Folks in town get the wrong impression of you. They think you are--ah--slumming.

When Henry handed her a cup of punch she whispered, "If you want to go on with the seniors or anything I'll be alright."Henry smiled at her. "You're my date, Scout.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be heany colour of the rainbow, but people have way to carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way to carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

(...) when a man's looking down the double barrel of a shotgun, he picks up the first weapon he can find to defend himself, be it a stone or a stick of stove wood or a citizens' council.

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

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

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

The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I did not die, I crammed it into my mouth: Wrigley's Double Mint.

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

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)