Kill A Mockingbird Novel Quotes

Kill A Mockingbird Novel Quotes by Harper Lee and many others.

That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can

That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they’re still human.
Harper Lee
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
There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.
Harper Lee
Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o’clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.
Harper Lee
You can choose your friends, but you sho’ can’t choose your family.
Harper Lee
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.
Harper Lee
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
Harper Lee
I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout
Harper Lee
You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
Harper Lee
Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
Harper Lee
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
Harper Lee
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
Harper Lee
Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.
Harper Lee
This time we aren’t fighting the Yankees, we’re fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they’re still our friends and this is still our home.
Harper Lee
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.
Harper Lee
Atticus, he was real nice.” “Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
Harper Lee
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.
Harper Lee

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