On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Quotes

“A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance!”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“I wanted you to see something about her... 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 you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“...you just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change... it's good one, even if it does resist learning.”
― Harper Lee, On 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, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“Courage … [is] when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“Опять, как в нашей церкви, я услыхал, что женщины грешны и нечисты, - видно, что все священники только об этом и думают.”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“Kartais mane labai negražiai pavadina, bet žinok, vaikeli, jei kas nors ant tavęs burnoja, tai dar nereiškia, kad tu esi įžeistas. Blogas žodis tavęs nežemina, tik parodo, koks apgailėtinas yra besikeikiantis žmogus.”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“Vienintelis dalykas, kuris nepriklauso nuo daugumos, yra žmogaus sąžinė.”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

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

“So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process. Those are twelve reasonable men in everyday life, Tom's jury, but you saw something come between them and reason. You saw the same thing that night in front of the jail. When that crew went away, they didn't go as reasonable men, they went because we were there. There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn't be fair if they tried.”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“Je voulais que tu comprennes quelque chose, que tu voies ce qu'est le vrai courage, au lieu de t'imaginer que c'est un homme avec un fusil dans la main. Le courage, c'est savoir que tu pars battu, mais d'agir quand même sans s'arrêter. Tu gagnes rarement mais cela peut arriver.”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“You just hold your head high and keep those fists down.”
― harper lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird […] 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.”
― Harper Lee, On 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, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“I guess Tom was tired of white men's chances, and preferred to take his own.”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“...you just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change...It's a good one, even if it does resists learning.”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“Rose Aylmer was Uncle Jack's cat. She was a beautiful yellow female Uncle Jack said was one of the few women he could stand permanently.”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“I wanted you to see something about her—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.”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“I wanted you to see something about her—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.”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“No, everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowin’. That Walter’s as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin’s wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.”
Jem turned around and punched his pillow. When he settled back his face was cloudy. He was going into one of his declines, and I grew wary. His brows came together; his mouth became a thin line. He was silent for a while.
“That’s what I thought, too.” he said at last, “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’m beginning to understand something. I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in that house all this time… it’s because he want wants to stay inside.”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“Bazen bir adamın elindeki İncil, babanın elindeki viski şişesinden daha tehlikeli olabilir.”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“He and Aunty looked alike, but Uncle Jack made better use of his face”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“He staked me out, marked as his property, said I was the only girl he would ever love, then he neglected me. I beat him up twice but it did no good, he only grew closer to Jem.”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“Si sólo hay una clase de personas, ¿por qué no pueden tolerarse unas a otras? Si todos son semejantes, ¿cómo salen de su camino para despreciarse unos a otros?...”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“تصوري أن عمتي فخورة بأن أبا جدها كان يستطيع القراءة و الكتابة ، إن السيدات يخترن أشياء مضحكة ليفاخرن بها”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“That ain't honest, Mr. Raymond, making yourself out badder'n you are already--

It ain't honest but it's mighty helpful to folks”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“Tribunalul reprezinta tinutul... in aceeasi masura ca si ceaiurile misionarilor.”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

“Peki, niçin bize en gizli sırrını açmıştı? Nedenini sordum.
-Çünkü siz çocuksunuz. Anlarsınız.”
― Harper Lee, On Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird