As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.
HARPER LEELadies pick funny things to be proud of.
More Harper Lee Quotes
-
-
Things are always better in the morning.
HARPER LEE -
Writing is something you’ll never learn in any university or at any school. It’s something that is within you, and if it isn’t there, nothing can put it there.
HARPER LEE -
A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
HARPER LEE -
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
HARPER LEE -
Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don’t like to do that. Sometimes it’s unpleasant.
HARPER LEE -
Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women – black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
HARPER LEE -
Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
HARPER LEE -
My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
HARPER LEE -
Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they’re quite different from people who must write.
HARPER LEE -
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.
HARPER LEE -
Things are never as bad as they seem.
HARPER LEE -
You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
HARPER LEE -
Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
HARPER LEE -
We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
HARPER LEE -
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.
HARPER LEE