Browsing Topic Best Kill A Mockingbird Novel Quotes

It’s not necessary to tell all you know. It’s not ladylike — in the second place, folks don’t like to have someone around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates them. Your not gonna change any of them by talkin’ right, they’ve got to want to learn themselves, and when they don’t want to learn there’s nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.

Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.

If there’s just one kind of folks, why can’t they get along with each other? If they’re all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I’m beginning to understand something. I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time. It’s because he wants to stay inside.

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

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

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.

As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it – whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.

You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.

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.

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

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

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

Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o’clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.

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

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

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.

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

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

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.

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.

…but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.

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.

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.

So it took an eight-year-old child to bring ’em to their senses…. That proves something – that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they’re still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

Atticus, he was real nice.Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

I’m gonna be a new kind of clown. I’m gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

Let the dead bury the dead.

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 can choose your friends, but you sho’ can’t choose your family.

I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system — that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.