We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
HARPER LEEWe’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
HARPER LEEI would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
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 LEEUntil I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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 LEEYou can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.
HARPER LEEMockingbirds 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 LEEPrejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
HARPER LEEPeople generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
HARPER LEEThe one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
HARPER LEELadies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
HARPER LEEI do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you’re working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn’t dream of interrupting on the golf course.
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 LEEPeople in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
HARPER LEEWith him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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 LEE