Harper Lee Quotes

I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read

They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.

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...

You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view— Sir? —until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

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.

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...

I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it.

I'm little but I'm old.

Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our...

See there? Jem was scowling triumphantly. Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin

Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.

That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, yo...

There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.

Things are never as bad as they seem.

To begin with, this case should never have come to trial. The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence that the crime Tom Robinson is charged with ever took place... It has relied instead u...

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.

With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.