Don’t you study about other folks’s business till you take care of your own.
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 book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.
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.
You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.
You damn morphodite, I'll kill you!
They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.
They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abi...
Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk aro...
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it t...
I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing.
Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my attire. I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches, when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn't supposed to do things...
As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is...
I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep...
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.
Things are always better in the morning.
Sometimes we have to kill a little so we can live.
Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.