Harper Lee Quotes

With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.

I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin' after you.

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 hurt you.

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.

You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.

Atticus, he was real nice."

"Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

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

Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.”

“I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?”

“The way you tell it, it is.

Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.

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.

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 an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... 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.

Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.

Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.

It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike-in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do.

Просто есть такие люди, они... они чересчур много думают о том свете и потому никак не науч%D

But sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a bottle of whiskey the the hand . . .