Kill A Mockingbird Mockingbird Quotes

I think I’ll be a clown when I get grown…. There ain’t one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I’m gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.

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

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

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.

I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.

They’ve done it before and they’ll do it again and when they do it — seems that only the children weep. Good night.

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.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

Summer, and he watches his children’s heart break. Autumn again and Boo’s children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

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.

People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.

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

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.

I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout

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