"Atticus's only answer
was for him to mind
his own business and
let the Radley's mind
theirs"
"You never really understand
a person until you consider
things from his point of
view...until you climb in his
skin and walk around in it"
"Don't say nigger
scout. That's common"
"I couldn't hold my head up in town, I couldn't
represent this country in the legislature, I couldn't
even tell you or Jem not to do something again."
"I hope and pray I
can get Jem and
Scout through
without
bitterness...without
catching Maycomb's
usual disease"
It's a sin to kill a mockingbird"
"I think maybe he put his gun down
when he realised God had given him an
unfair advantage over most living
things"
"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"
"I couldn't go to church and worship
God is I didn't help that man"
"Before I live with other folks I've
got to live with myself. The one
thing that doesn't abide by
majority rule is a person's
conscience."
"Instead of getting the idea courage is a man with
a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked
before you begin but you begin anyway and you
see it through no matter what"
"Mr Cunningham's
basically a good
man...he just has his
blind spots along
with the rest of us"
"You'll have to excuse me, Miss Mayella"
"There are some men in this world who were
born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your
father's one of them"
"Atticus Finch won't win, he can't win but
he's the only man in these parts who can
keep a jury out so long in a case like that"
"If spitting in my face
and threatening me
saved Mayella Ewell one
extra beating, that's
something I'll gladly
take"
"There's nothing more sickening to me than a low-grade
white man who'll take advantage of a Negro's ignorance"
"Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at
me...If I connived at something like this, frankly
I couldn't meet his eye and the day i can't do
that I'll know I've lost him. I don't want to lose
him and Scout, because they;re all I've got"
Miss Maudie
"Mockingbird's don't
do one thing but make
music for us to enjoy"
"There are just some kind of men
who-who're so busy worrying about the next
world they've never learned to live this one"
"I think maybe he put his
gun down when he realised
God had given him an unfair
advantage over most living
things"
"People in their right minds never take pride
in their talents"
"Always wanted a smaller house, Jem Finch. Gives me more yard"
The children see courage
here from Miss Maudie.
"There are some men in this world who were born to do our
unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them"
Miss Maudie understands everything Atticus is trying to do and
influences the children as she explaing to them what or why Atticus
is doing what he is.
"Atticus Finch won't win, he can't win but
he's the only man in these parts who can
keep a jury out so long in a case like that"
"We're making a step-it's just a
baby-step but it's a step"
"His food doesn't stick going down, does it?"
Scout Finch
"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"
"Jem had acquired an alien set of values
and was trying to impose them on me"
"You made Walter Cunningham
stand in my shoes for a minute"
"It came to me that
Mayella Ewell must
have been the loneliest
person in the world"
"Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'"
"I think there’s
just one kind of
folks. Folks."
"Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back"
"Do you want to grow up to be a lawyer?" "Nome, just a lady"
"It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason"
Scout learns about Maycomb's
prejudice through Dolphus
Raymond.
"After all, if Aunty could be a
lady at a time like this, so could I"
"We're paying the highest tribute we can
pay a man. We trust him to do right"
"I sometimes felt a twinge of remorse...at
ever having taken part in what must have
been sheer torment to Arthur Radley"
"Hey Boo"
"Jem, how can you hate Hitler so bad
an' then turn around and be ugly about
the folks right at home-?
"Well, it'd sort of be like shootin' a
mockingbird, wouldn't it?
"I had never seen out neighbourhood from this angle"
"Atiticus 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"
"There wasn't much else left for us
to learn, except possibly algebra"