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If you did not want much, there was plenty.
The only remedy for this is not to let it beat you.”
Love’s the only thing in this world that is unequivocal. There are different kinds of love, certainly, but it’s a you-do or you-don’t proposition with them all.
“Aunty, there’s a drinking streak in every family.” Alexandra’s back stiffened. “Not in the Finch family.” “You’re right. We’re just all crazy.”
Fine a boy as he is, the trash won’t wash out of him.
“Aunty,” she said, cordially, “why don’t you go pee in your hat?”
“Anybody with eyes that good was up to no good.”
nothing can kill the pleasure of one’s first cigarette on a new morning.
never to take advantage of anybody who was less fortunate than myself, whether he be less fortunate in brains, wealth, or social position;
Jean Louise felt she was being lured slowly and stealthily into Dr. Finch’s web. He is a wonderful old spider, but nevertheless he is a spider.
They might be sons of bitches, the British, but they were our sons of bitches—”
They fought to preserve their identity. Their political identity, their personal identity.”
history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he’ll look for his lessons.
“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. The only thing in America that is still unique in this tired world is that a man can go as far as his brains will take him or he can go to hell if he wants to, but it won’t be that way much longer.”
The dark tower. Childe Roland to the dark tower came.
“I am trying,” said Dr. Finch, “to attract your attention.”
“All passion spent?”
I never struck a woman before in my life. Think I’ll go strike your aunt and see what happens.
He’s crazy, all right, like every fox that was ever born.
Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.”
the time your friends need you is when they’re wrong, Jean Louise. They don’t need you when they’re right—”
