black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

Harper Lee

Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
HARPER LEE

Desire Feeling Group Myself Woman
Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
HARPER LEE

Hands Man Oneself Religious Worst
You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
HARPER LEE

Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner Rare Win Yourself
Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
HARPER LEE

Bird Destroy Enjoyment Garden Heart Music Sin Sing
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

Believe Court Health Ideal Integrity Live Work
I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
HARPER LEE

Kind Myself People Thinking
As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
HARPER LEE

Curiosity Frustration Happiness Introduction Joy Kill Reading
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

Focus Himself Man Mindset Service
Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
HARPER LEE

Better Case Exception Law Special
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

Black Human Immoral Lying Man Race Trust White Woman
You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE

Place Understand Walk Yourself
It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
HARPER LEE

Better Fools Silence
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.
HARPER LEE

Answer Children Goodness Simplicity Yourself
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.
HARPER LEE

Brave Father Hate Live Man Myself Thinking Time War Weapon
Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
HARPER LEE

Alive Book Cooperation Fake Myself Rest
I do my best to love everybody.
HARPER LEE

Best Compassionate Kindness Love Myself One Liner

With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Harper Lee Quotes