To Kill a Mockingbird Important Quotes

I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.

<p>Let the dead bury the dead this time, Mr. Finch.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>You know the truth, the truth is this: some Negroes lie, some Negroes are immoral, some Negro men cannot be trusted around women, black or white.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. But don't make a production of it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other?</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>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.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It was times like these when I thought (someone who would give off the clue), who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Atticus says you can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>You are too young to understand it...but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of - oh, of your father.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Whether Maycomb knows it or not, we're paying the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Atticus, how bad is this going to be?</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cal says she'd been cussing fluently for a week, now.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>My folks said your daddy was a disgrace an' that n***** oughta hang from the water-tank!</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>I don't care what you do, so long as you do something.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>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.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>I strongly advise you to go down and have a talk with Mrs. Dubose.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Well, most folks seem to think they're right and you're wrong....</p> Signup and view all the answers