Quotes from Harper Lee

But Mrs Dubose held us: 'Not only a Finch waiting on tables but one in the court-house lawing for niggers!

After much passing around of money Cousin Joshua was moved across the tracks and placed in state accommodations for the irresponsible

Thereafter, he [Bob Ewell] resumed his regular weekly appearances at the welfare office for his cheque, and received it with no grace amid obscure mutterings that the bastards who thought they ran this town wouldn't permit an honest man to make a living.

Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out.

E lembra-te disto: é sempre fácil olharmos para trás e vermos o que fomos ontem ou há dez anos. O que é difícil é vermos o que somos hoje. Se conseguires isso, vai correr tudo bem.

Negro would not pass the Radley Place at night, he would cut across to the sidewalk opposite and whistle as he walked.

Dill's eyes flickered at Jem, and Jem looked at the floor. Then he rose and broke the remaining code of our childhood. He went out of the room and down the hall. "Atticus," his voice was distant, "can you come here a minute, sir?

She wished she had paid more attention to them, but only one glance down a column of print was enough to tell her a familiar story: same people who were the Invisible Empire, who hated Catholics; ignorant, fear-ridden, red-faced, boorish, law-abiding, one hundred per cent red-blooded Anglo-Saxons, her fellow Americans—trash.

Jem preached the longest, most tedious sermon she ever heard in her life. He said that sin was about the most sinful thing he could think of, and no one who sinned could be a success, and blessed was he who sat in the seat of the scornful; in short, he repeated his own version of everything they had heard for the past three nights.

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

I can't live one way in town and another way in my home

A baseball hit into the Radley yard was a lost ball and no questions asked.

It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike—in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates 'em. 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

Hush, Scout; It ain't time to worry yet. I'll let you know when.

Well, as a general rule, most women, before they've got 'em, present to their men smiling, agreeing faces. They hide their thoughts. You now, when you're feeling hateful, honey, you are hateful.

The Radleys, welcome anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb.

that whatever was decent and of good report in her character was put there by her father; she did not know that she worshiped him.

Our gods are remote from us, Jean Louise. They must never descend to human level." "Is

Con không bao gi? thá»±c sá»± hi?u má»™t ng??i cho ??n khi con xem xét m?i vi?c t? quan Ä'i?m c?a ng??i Ä'ó

it's always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are. If you can master that trick, you'll get along.

There's one thing I truly believe, Gertrude," she continued, "but some people just don't see it my way. If we just let them know we forgive 'em, that we've forgotten it, then this whole thing'll blow over.

Calpurnia's tyranny, unfairness, and meddling in my business had faded to gentle grumblings of general disapproval.

For reasons unfathomable to the most experienced prophets in Maycomb County, autumn turned to winter that year.

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.