Harper Lee Quotes

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.

You children made Walter Cunningham stand in my shoes for a minute. That was enough.

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts.

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.

I thought I wanted to be a lawyer but I ain’t so sure now!

Atticus ain’t ever whipped me since I can remember. I want to keep it that way.

Don’t see how any jury could convict on what we heard.

Don’t you study about other folks’s business till you take care of your own.

As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he’ll look for his lessons.

As you say, Jean Louise, there’s only one thing higher than the Court in this country, and that’s the Constitution.

The only remedy for this is not to let it beat you.

I learned nothing from you except how to be suspicious. I didn’t know what hate was until I lived among you and saw you hating every day.

I despise you and everything you stand for.

I just don’t like my world disturbed without some warning.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.