Harper Lee Quotes

Every neight he read aloud to them until his voice cracked.Atticus killed several birds with one stone when he read to his children, and would pobably have caused a child psychologist considerable dis...

A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.

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

Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.

Atticus said to Jem one day, I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a...

Autumn was her happiest season.

But a man who has lived by truth—and you have believed in what he has lived—he does not leave you merely wary when he fails you, he leaves you with nothing. I think that is why I’m nearly out of my mi...

Daylight...In my mind, the night faded. It was daytime and the neighborhood was busy. Miss Stephenie Crawford crossed the street to tell the latest to Miss Rachel. Miss Maudie bent over the azaleas. I...

I simply want to tell you that there are some men in this world who were born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.Oh, said Jem. Well.Don’t you oh well me, sir, Miss Maudie repl...

Naw, Jem. I think that there is just one kind of folks. Folks.Jen turned and punched his pillow. WHen he settle back his face was cloudy. He was going in to one of his declines, and I grew wary. His b...

Pass the damn ham, please.

Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were ex...

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

You deny them hope. Any man in this world, Atticus, any man who has a head and arms and legs, was born with hope in his heart. You won’t find that in the Constitution, I picked that up in church somew...

Atticus sat looking at the floor for a long time. Finally he raised his head. Scout, he said, Mr. Ewell fell on his knife. Can you possibly understand?Atticus looked like he needed cheering up. I ran...

Atticus, he was real nice.Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

Hey Boo.

I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill.Jem and I stopped in our tracks.Yes sir, a clown,' he said. 'There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna jo...

Let the dead bury the dead.