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.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fightin' with your head for a change. -Atticus Finch
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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.
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.
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.
Pass the damn ham, please.
I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout
We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.
You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.
There are just some kind of men who-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.
It's not time to worry yet
Things are always better in the morning.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.
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.
They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.
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.
Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
