There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.
HARPER LEEThere’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.
HARPER LEELadies pick funny things to be proud of.
HARPER LEEServing 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 LEEPrejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
HARPER LEEThings are never as bad as they seem.
HARPER LEEThe 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.
HARPER LEEBut sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
HARPER LEEBut before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
HARPER LEEShe 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.
HARPER LEEWriting 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 LEEI do my best to love everybody.
HARPER LEEThe book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
HARPER LEEIt’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 LEESummer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
HARPER LEEA man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
HARPER LEEReal courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
HARPER LEE