All Harper Lee Quotes
- 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… Adults
- I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. Yes sir, a clown,' he said.… Backwards
- I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that.… Any
- Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him. Anyone
- With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable. Him
- 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… Behind
- I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout Born
- We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple. Highest
- Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere. Always Filled
- hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch Atticus
- Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic… Add
- 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. Busy
- Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they… Able
- I'm little but I'm old. Funny
- summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything… Best
- That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Animal
- 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… Bad
- Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases. Bend
- When they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those things . . . Atticus, he was real nice. . . .” His… Any
- Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing. Born
- 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. Atticus
- Nothin’s real scary except in books. Book
- I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it. Anything Needs
- Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats… Across
- Yeah, that's all," said Dill. "He'll probably come out after you when he sees you in the yard, then Scout'n' me'll jump on him and… All