Harper Lee Quotes

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...

You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fightin' with your head for a change.-Atticus Finch

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.

Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced.

She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.

A lady?' Jem raised his head. His face was scarlet. 'After all those things she said about you, a lady?''She was. She had her own views about things, a lot different from mine, maybe... son, I told yo...

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.

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.

Fino al giorno in cui mi minacciarono di non lasciarmi più leggere, non seppi di amare la lettura: si ama, forse, il proprio respiro?

I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea.

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.

I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or late...

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

She was a person who, when confronted with an easy way out, always took the hard way. The easy way out of this would be to marry Hank and let him labor for her. After a few years, when the children we...

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.

Try fighting with your head for a change...it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

Turtles don't feel, stupid, said Jem.Were you ever a turtle, huh?

We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.