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.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
Nothing is more deadly than a deserted, waiting street.
Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
In their own way, Tom Robinson's manners were as good as Atticus's
They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman.You are telling them Jesus loves them, but not much.
Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never le...
Finders were keepers unless title was proven.
One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.
Miss Gates is a nice lady, ain't she?Why sure, said Jem. I liked her when I was in her room.She hates Hitler a lot . . .What's wrong with that?Well, she went on today about how bad it was him treating...
I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin' after you.
I wanted you see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.
Nothin’s real scary except in books.
Scout- .. Uncle Jack?"Uncle Jack- "Ma'am?"Scout- "What's a whore-lady?
You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep...
That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.
Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.