Quotes from Harper Lee

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what

Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand

Den varma bittersöta lukten av rena negrer

Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree-house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colours in a parched landscape ; but most of all, summer was Dill.

For a number of reasons, said Atticus. The main one is, if I didn't I couldn't hold up my head in town, I couldn't represent this county in the legislature, I couldn't even tell you or Jem not to do something again. (Lee 177)

He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good luck pennies, and our lives.

but things like long life 'n' good health, 'n' passin' six-weeks tests . . .

Grandma says all men should learn to cook, that men oughta be careful with their wives and wait on 'em when they don't feel good.' said my cousin.

Có má»™t th? không tuân theo nguyên t?c s? Ä'ông. ?ó là lÆ°Æ¡ng tâm con ng??i

But before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

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 a man who has lived by the truth-and you have believed in what he has lived-he does not leave you merely wary when he fails you, he leaves you with nothing.

If we followed our feelings all the time we´d be like cats chasin´ their tails.

atticus finch is husband material

Con ng??i có ??u óc sáng su?t thì không bao gi? tá»± hào v? tài n?ng c?a mình

Hurts, doesn´t it? You´re damn right it hurts. You know how it feels ,now.

Jean Louise, when a man's looking down the double barrel of a shotgun, he picks up the first weapon he can find to defend himself, be it a stone or a stick of stove wood, or a citizens' council.

It was not always like this, I swear it wasn't. People used to trust each other for some reason. I've forgotten why.

Hell is eternal apartness. What had she done that she must spend the rest of her years reaching out with yearning for them, making secret trips to long ago, making no journey to the present?I am their blood and bones, I have dug in this ground, this is my home. But I am not their blood, the ground doesn't care who digs it, I am a stranger at a cocktail party.

Selalu ada saja jenis orang yang terlalu sibuk memikirkan akhirat sehingga tak pernah belajar hidup di dunia ini.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way to carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

Shoot all the bluejays you want if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Llorar por el infierno puro y simple en que unas personas hunden a otras... sin detenerse a pensarlo tan sólo. Llorar por el infierno en que los hombres blancos hunden a los de color, sin pensar que también son personas.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

But before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide my majority rule is a person's conscience.