Quotes from Harper Lee

That is three-fourths colored folks and one-fourth Stephanie Crawford

A mí me dijo que tener un arma equivale a invitar al otro a que te dispare

one must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

Guilty . . . guilty . . . guilty . . . guilty . . .

I deny having taken part in such a thing.

New York is saying to me right now: you, Jean Louise Finch, are not reacting according to our doctrines regarding your kind, therefore you do not exist.

akl? ba??nda hiç kimse yeteneÄŸi var diye gururlanmaz.

The best minds in the country have told us who you are. You can't escape it, and we don't blame you for it, but we do ask you to conduct yourself within the rules that those who know have laid down for your behavior, and don't try to be anything else.

In the name of God, believe him.

Miss Maudie stopped rocking, and her voice hardened. "You are too young to understand it," she said, "but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of—oh, of your father.

ama baÅŸka insanlar?n yüzüne bakabilmek için önce kendi yüzüme bakabilmeliyim. BaÅŸka insanlar?n çoÄŸunluÄŸunun düÅŸüncelerinden ba??ms?z hareket eden tek ÅŸey insan?n vicdan?d?r.

She had been half willing to sponge out what she had seen and heard, creep back to New York, and make him a memory. A memory of the three of them, Atticus, Jem, and her, when things were uncomplicated and people did not lie.

Cry about what, Mr. Raymond?' Dill's maleness was beginning to assert itself. 'Cry about the simple hell people give other people - without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people, too.

She answered: please believe me, what has happened in my family is not what you think. I can say only this—that everything I learned about human decency I learned here. I learned nothing from you except how to be suspicious. I didn't know what hate was until I lived among you and saw you hating every day. They even had to pass laws to keep you from hating.

When Alexandra went to finishing school, self-doubt could not be found in any textbook, so she knew not its meaning; she was never bored, and given the slightest chance she would exercise her royal prerogative: she would arrange, advise, caution, and warn.

You're not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.

In all his life, Jem had never declined a dare. I suppose he loved honor more than his head.

I despise your quick answers, your slogans in the subways, and most of all I despise your lack of good manners: you'll never have 'em as long as you exist.

finding ourselves in the same deep waters. 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.

Ben herkesi sevmek için elimden geleni yap?yorum...Bazen aç?klamakta zorlan?yorum; bak yavrum, birinin kötü olduÄŸunu düÅŸündüÄŸü bir ÅŸeyle seni nitelendirmesi hiçbir zaman hakaret deÄŸildir. O kiÅŸinin ne kadar aciz olduÄŸunu gösterir, seni incitmez.

He so nearly understood. I'll marry you, Hank, if you bring me to live here at the Landing. I'll swap New York for this place but not for Maycomb.

You must have lived it. 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

nenhum sistema educacional criado pelo homem o impediria de chegar aos livros.

You did all this chopping and work from sheer goodness, boy?