A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
HARPER LEEAny writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
More Harper Lee Quotes
-
-
Things are never as bad as they seem.
HARPER LEE -
I do my best to love everybody.
HARPER LEE -
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.
HARPER LEE -
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
HARPER LEE -
Summer 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 LEE -
As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
HARPER LEE -
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
HARPER LEE -
Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
HARPER LEE -
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
HARPER LEE -
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
HARPER LEE -
The 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 LEE -
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
HARPER LEE -
She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
HARPER LEE -
You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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