What does a bigot do when he meets someone who challenges his opinions? He doesn’t give. He stays rigid. Doesn’t even try to listen, just lashes out.
They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.
Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.
Pass the damn ham, please.
If you did not want much, there was plenty.
I'm little but I'm old.
I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout
I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it.
I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?'I said not particularly.
Don’t talk like that, Dill, said Aunt Alexandra. It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?The way you tell it, it is.
But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal- there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the...
Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.
Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.
You are fascinated with yourself. You will say anything that occurs to you, but what I can’t understand are the things that do occur to you. I should like to take your head apart, put a fact in it, an...
When stalking one’s prey, it is best to take one’s time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge.
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'e...
Turtles don't feel, stupid, said Jem.Were you ever a turtle, huh?
That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.