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 LEEWhen 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 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 LEEThe one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
HARPER LEEI 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 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 LEELadies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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 LEEThings are never as bad as they seem.
HARPER LEEThings are always better in the morning.
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 LEEI do my best to love everybody.
HARPER LEESometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
HARPER LEESome 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 LEEAny writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
HARPER LEEYou rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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