We wondered, sometimes, when your conscience and his would part company, and over what. Dr. Finch smiled. Well, we know now. I’m just thankful I was around when the ructions started. Atticus couldn’t...
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...
There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.
She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
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, J...
I shall never marry, Atticus.Why?I might have children.
Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he'll look for his lessons.
The only thing I'm afraid of about this country is that its government will someday become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampled underfoot, and then it wouldn't be worth living...
Alexandra had been married for thirty-three years; if it had made any impression on her one way or another, she never showed it.
She was almost in love with him. No, that’s impossible, she thought: either you are or you aren’t. Love’s the only thing in this world that is unequivocal. There are different kinds of love, certainly...
It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike- in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do.
I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.
Go away, the old buildings said. There is no place for you here. You are not wanted. We have secrets.
First of all, he said, if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of v...
Don’t you study about other folks’s business till you take care of your own.
Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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...
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 ma...