Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Quotes

“I don't hafta take his sass”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“She was one of the rare ones, so effortlessly herself, and the world loved her for it.”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“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.”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“I lay on my stomach, reached down and poked him. He rolled up. Then, feeling safe, I suppose, he slowly unrolled. He travelled a few inches in his hundred legs and I touched him again. He rolled up. Feeling sleepy, I decided to end things. My hand was going down on him when Jem spoke.”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

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

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

- Atticus Finch”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“The law says 'reasonable doubt,' but I think a defendant's entitled to the shadow of a doubt. There's always the possibility, no matter how improbable, that he's innocent.”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“Bildiğin her şeyi söylemek zorunda değilsin. Kibar bir bayana yakışmaz ayrıca, insanlar kendilerinden daha çok şey bilen birini çevrelerinde görmekten hoşlanmazlar. Sinirlenirler. Doğru konuşarak onları değiştiremezsin, kendileri öğrenmek istemelidir, onlar öğrenmek istemiyorlarsa bir şey yapamazsın, ya çeneni kapar ya da onlar gibi konuşursun.”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“...but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of--oh, of your father.”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“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”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“Hush, Scout, it's not time to worry yet. I tell you when it's time to worry. ~Jem”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“Hey, Boo”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“Well before I live with others, I have to live with myself." - Atticus Finch”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“Antes de vivir con los demás tengo que vivir conmigo mismo, y la única cosa que no se rige por la regla de la mayoría es la propia conciencia”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“Shoot all the bluejays you want if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird".”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“When they finally saw him, why he hadn’t done any of those things . . . Atticus, he was real nice. . . .” His hands were under my chin, pulling up the cover, tucking it around me. “Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“Aunt Rachel says your name's Jeremy Atticus Finch.'
Jem scowled. 'I'm big enough to fit mine,' he said. 'Your names longer'n you are. Bet it's a foot longer.”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“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 a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you‘ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don‘t you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“It is not. It is not ok to hate anyone.”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“I was to be a ham”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house's yo' company, and don't ... remarking on their ways like you was so high and mighty. Yo' folks might be better ... bu tit don't count for nothin' the way you're discracin' 'em.”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“The night-crawlers had retired, but ripe chinaberries drummed on the roof when the wind stirred, and the darkness was desolate with the barking of distant dog.”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“Miss Caroline parecía no darse cuenta que los andrajosos alumnos de la primera clase, los cuales habían cortado algodón y cebado puercos desde que supieron andar, eran inmunes a la literatura de imaginación”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“From now on it’ll be everybody less one.”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“Atticus, forse ti sbagli..."
"Come hai detto?"
"Quasi tutti sembrano pensare di aver ragione loro, e che tu, invece, abbia torto..."
"Hanno sicuramente il diritto di pensarlo, come noi abbiamo il dovere di rispettare le loro opinioni", disse Atticus, "ma prima di vivere con gli altri io devo vivere con me stesso. L'unica cosa che non è tenuta a rispettare il volere della maggioranza è la coscienza”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“Vor allem, Scout', sagte er, 'musst du einen ganz einfachen Trick lernen, dann wirst du viel besser mit Menschen aller Art auskommen. Man kann einen anderen nur richtig verstehen, wenn man die Dinge von seinem Gesichtspunkt aus beachtet”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“That's what I thought, too, when I was your age. If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beggining to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all the time. . . it's because he wants to stay inside.”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“Non mi ero mai messa di proposito a imparare a leggere, ma mi ero in un certo senso pasciuta del fango dei quotidiani. Nelle lunghe ore passate in chiesa… è stato forse allora che ho imparato a leggere? Nel mio ricordo non esisteva un’epoca in cui non fossi capace di leggere gli inni. Ora che ero costretta a pensarci, mi pareva che la lettura fosse una cosa venutami naturalmente, come l’abbottonarmi la tuta da operaio senza guardare, o fare il doppio nodo alle scarpe da un groviglio di lacci. Non ricordavo più il momento in cui le righe che il dito di Atticus indicava, muovendosi sulla pagina, si erano separate in tante parole, mi ricordavo di aver fissato quelle righe ogni sera della mia vita, ascoltando le notizie di cronaca, il dibattito parlamentare, i diari di Lorenzo Dow, tutto quello che leggeva Atticus, la sera, quando mi arrampicavo sulle sue ginocchia. Fino al giorno in cui mi minacciarono di non lasciarmi più leggere, non seppi di amare la lettura: si ama, forse, il proprio respiro?”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“But before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“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.”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“Kind, du darfst dich nie beleidigt fühlen, wenn jemand dir etwas nachruft, was er als Schimpfnamen betrachtet. Das zeigt nur, was für ein armseliger Mensch der andere ist, es verletzt nicht.”
― Harper Lee, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird