Quotes by Harper Lee

“You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”

“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 examp...”

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

“He might have hurt me a little,' Atticus conceded, 'but sn, you'll understand folks a little better when you're older. A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr Cunnignham was part of a ...”

“A boy trudged down the sidewalk dragging a fishing pole behind him. A man stood waiting with his hands on his hips. Summertime, and his children played in the front yard with their friend, enacting...”

“There was nowhere to go, but I turned to go and met Atticus's vest front. I buried my head in it and listened to the small internal noises that went on behind the light blue cloth: his watch tickin...”

“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'...”

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”

“She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it. ”

“Don't you oh well me,sir," Miss Maudie replied, recognizing Jem's fatalistic noises, "you are not old enough to appreciate what I said.”

“We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.”

“If a man says to you, "This is the truth," and you believe him, and you discover what he says is not the truth, you are disappointed and you make sure you will not be caught out by him again. But a...”

“Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.”

“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.”

“No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin's wrong with him. Naw...”

“We came to the street light in the corner, and I wondered how many times Dill stood there hugging the fat pole, watching, waiting, hoping. I wondered how many times Jem and I had made this journey,...”

“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.”

“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.”

“Whatever she says to you, its your jobnot to let her make you mad.”