Harper Lee Quotes
Harper Lee Quotes
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
4232 Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
4714 Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.
2727 I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin' after you.
2911 It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
1718 Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.
3462 You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.
4177 Atticus, he was real nice."
"Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
1546 Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
3274 Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.”
“I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?”
“The way you tell it, it is.
1050 Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
1821 Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
4495 When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.
3232 Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
2623 Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - 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.
4695 Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.
1995 Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
1614 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.
1140 Просто есть такие люди, они... они чересчур много думают о том свете и потому никак не науч%D
3005 But sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a bottle of whiskey the the hand . . .
1529 There are just some kind of men who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one.
1052 You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
4635 Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
2692 Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It's best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell him I'll take over from here and try to undo the damage-
1839 We can't always have our druthers.
3875 If we followed our feelings all the time, we'd be like cats chasin' their tails.
3944 There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.
3427 Don't you oh well me,sir," Miss Maudie replied, recognizing Jem's fatalistic noises, "you are not old enough to appreciate what I said.
4447 I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
1953 First of all," he said, "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
2916 People have a habit of doing everyday things even under the oddest conditions.
3226 Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced.
2333 всякая толпа состоит из людей.
2942 Одни только дураки гордятся своими талантами.
(Мисс Моди Эткинсон - Глазастику Финч)
1317 With him, life was routine, without him, life was unbearable.
1967 With him was routine, but without him it was unbearable.
3186 Peki, niçin bize en gizli sırrını açmıştı? Nedenini sordum.
-Çünkü siz çocuksunuz. Anlarsınız.
1859 Jack: Atticus, you’ve never laid a hand on her.
Atticus: I admit that. So far I've been able to get by with threats. Jack, she minds me as well as she can. Doesn't come up to scratch half the time, but she tries.
Jack: That's not the answer.
Atticus: No, the answer is she knows I know she tries. That's what makes the difference.
1344 There was nowhere to go, but I turned to go and met Atticus's vest front. I buried my head in it and listened to the small internal noises that went on behind the light blue cloth: his watch ticking, the faint crackle of his starched shirt, the soft sound of his breathing.
'Your stomach's growling,' I said.
'I know it,' he said.
4728 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 see it through no matter what.
- Atticus Finch
4134 We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.
4742 Thought you could kill my Snow-on-the-Mountain, did you? Well, Jessie says that the top's growing back out. Next time you'll know how to do it right, won't you? You'll pull it up by the roots, won't you?
4899 So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process.
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