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

I despise you and everything you stand for.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: 'A truck!'

I went into the gas station, said, Fill 'er up, Harry. The guy said, Regular? I said, No, put on a gorrila suit and dance like a fairy.

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.

I'm not a fatalist; even if I were, what could I do about it?

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.