Quotes from Harper Lee

As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County School system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.

Oni, naravno, imaju pravo da tako misle i zaslužuju poštovanje zbog svojih stajališta," rekao je Atticus, "ali prije nego što mogu živjeti s drugima, moram mo?i živjeti sam sa sobom. Savjest je jedna od stvari o kojoj se ne odlu?uje glasovanjem ve?ine.

The poetry was so ahead of its time no one has deciphered it yet

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 rural children who could, usually brought clippings from what they called The Grit Paper, a publication spurious in the eyes of Miss Gates, our teacher. Why she frowned when a child recited from The Grit Paper I never knew, but in some way it was associated with liking fiddling, eating syrupy biscuits for lunch, being a holy-roller, singing Sweetly Sings the Donkey and pronouncing it dunkey, all of which the state paid teachers to discourage.

What I meant was, if Atticus Finch drank until he was drunk, he wouldn't be as hard as some men at their best. There are just some kind of me 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.

Atticus je ustao i otišao do kraja trijema. Kad je temeljito pregledao penja?icu, vratio se k meni. Kao prvo, rekao je, uspiješ li nau?iti jedan jednostavan trik, Scout, s mnogim ?eš se ljudima bolje slagati. Ne možeš nekoga shvatiti dok ne razmisliš o stvarima s njegova stajališta... Molim? ... dok se ne uvu?eš u njegovu kožu i ne hodaš u njoj.

Why doesn't their flesh creep? How can they devoutly believe everything they hear in church and then say the things they do and listen to the things they hear without throwing up? I thought I was a Christian but I'm not. I'm something else and I don't know what. Everything I have ever taken for right and wrong these people have taught me -- these same, these very people. So it's me, it's not them. Something has happened to me.

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.

That's the one thing about here, the South, you've missed. You'd be amazed if you knew how many people are on your side, if side's the right word. You're no special case. The woods are full of people like you, but we need more of you.

Atticus decía que para ser cortés había que hablar a las personas de lo que les interesaba, no de lo que pudiera interesarnos a nosotros

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... it's good one, even if it does resist learning.

Deje que los muertos entierren a los muertos. (Heck Tate)

I would lead him through the house, but I would never lead him home

Halte immer den Kopf hoch und lass die Fäuste unten. Ganz gleich, was man dir sagt, lass dich nicht in Wut bringen. Versuche zur Abwechslung einmal mit dem Kopf zu kämpfen... er ist ganz gut beieinander, auch wenn er nicht lernen will.

It had never fully occurred to Jean Louise that she was a girl: her life had been one of reckless, pummeling activity; fighting, football, climbing, keeping up with Jem, and besting anyone her own age in any contest requiring physical prowess.

those children to work while Tom's in jail.

I wanted you to see something about her... 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 you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

Si sólo hay una clase de personas, ¿por qué no pueden tolerarse unas a otras? Si todos son semejantes, ¿cómo salen de su camino para despreciarse unos a otros?...

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, and then it wouldn't be worth living in

Uno vence raras veces, pero alguna vez vence.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance!

Mary Webster was on the blower. Her advance agents saw Hank and me swimming in the middle of the river last night with no clothes on. H'rm, said Atticus. He touched his glasses. I hope you weren't doing the backstroke.

ConversaÈ›ia cu Francis îmi d?dea senzaÈ›ia unei scufund?ri lente în adâncul oceanului