Quotes from Harper Lee

Dear goodness, the things you learned.

Cynical, hell. I'm a healthy old man with a constitutional mistrust of paternalism and government in large doses.

Prisimink dar kai k?: ži?r?ti ? praeit? ir matyti, kokie buvome vakar, prieš dešimt met?, visada lengva. Kur kas sunkiau suvokti, kokie mes dabar. Jei ?valdysi š? geb?jim?, tau seksis kuo puikiausiai.

The only thing I'm afraid of about this country is that its government will someday become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampled underfoot

No, don't tell me, let me tell you: you had a marvelous time but you wouldn't dream of living there.

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 you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.

They try to strike terror in Southern mothers, lest their children grow up to fall in love with Negroes. If they didn't make an issue of it, the issue would rarely arise. If the issue arose, it would be met on private ground.

said once, that the only real duties of government were to prevent crime and preserve contracts, to which I will add one thing since I find myself reluctantly in the twentieth century: and to provide for the common defense.

Atticus -' said Jem bleakly. He turned in the doorway, 'What, son?' 'How could they do it, how could they?' 'I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it - seems that only children weep. Good night.

Keep calm and consult Jack

Nu ÅŸtiu cum, dar au f?cut-o. Au f?cut-o ÅŸi înainte, au f?cut-o ast?-sear? ÅŸi au s-o mai fac?, ÅŸi când fac una ca asta...se pare c? numai copiii plâng.

furthermore, I should be a ray of sunshine in my father's lonely life. I suggested that one could be a ray of sunshine in pants just as well

But in the absence of eye-witness there's always a doubt, sometimes only the shadow of a doubt. The law says 'reasonable doubt', but I think a defendant's entitled to the shadow of doubt. There's always the possibility, no matter how improbable, that he's innocent.

The time your friends need you is when they're wrong, Jean Louise. They don't need you when they're right.

until you climb into his skin and walk around it (Lee 27)

You can't do that, Scout," Atticus said. "Sometimes it's better to bend the law a little in special cases. In your case, the law remains rigid. So to school you must go.

The people became no less than what they were to begin with—in some cases they became horrifyingly more. They were never destroyed. They were ground into the dirt and up they popped.

I don't know why you can't. Hypocrites have just as much right to live in this world as anybody.

I thought we were just people. I have no idea." Her uncle smiled, and an unholy light appeared in his eyes. He's gonna skate off now, she thought. I can never catch him and bring him back.

Jem and I found our father satisfactory: he played with us, read to us, and treated us with courteous detachment.

La historia se está repitiendo, no hay duda, tan seguro como que el hombre es hombre, la historia será el último sitio donde la gente busque respuestas.

This is one good thing about life that never changes, she thought. As long as he lived, as long as she returned, Mr. Fred would be here with his . . . simple welcome. What was that? Alice? Brer Rabbit? It was Mole. Mole, when he returned from some long journey, desperately tired, had found the familiar waiting for him with its simple welcome.

She was almost in love with him. No, that's impossible, she thought: either you are or aren't. Love's the only thing in this world that is unequivocal. There are different kinds of love, certainly, but it's a you-do or you- don't proposition with them all.