61 result(s) for Harper Lee Quotes.
"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."
"It's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you."
"Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it."
"It's better to be silent than to be a fool."
"People have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box."
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
"Being a lawyer's a brave thing."
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"When you know you're licked before you begin, it is none in any sense, immoral."
"Bad grammar is the first sign of a bad lawyer."
"There's some folks who don't eat like us, but you ain't called on to contradict 'em at the table when they don't."
"Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean."
"Atticus, he was real nice."
"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy."
"Before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself."
"It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you."
"With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable."
"Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it."
"Things are never as bad as they seem."
"Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of another."
"The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience."
"People in their right minds never take pride in their talents."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"Folks are folks."
"The secret to happiness is as easy as living in the moment."
"Besides, people will always separate the good from the bad."
"Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one person is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of another... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results."
"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
"Do your best, and be a little better than you are."
"Atticus, he was real nice..."
"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."
"I wanted you to see what real courage is..."
"Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience."
"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win."
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"Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us."
"Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."
"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, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash."
"There are just some kind of men who-who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results."
"I wanted you to see what real courage is. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."
"It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived."
"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."
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."
"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for."
"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 through no matter what."
"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, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash."
"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 abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks."
"Atticus, he was real nice... Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."
"It's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you."
"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 fighting with your head for a change."
"Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends."
"Things are always better in the morning."
"Before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
"Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it."
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
"The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think."
"I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year."
"In an over-sentimental culture, the moral panic pandemic is upon us. Fear eats the soul of depth."
"Real courage is... when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what."
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