Kill A Mockingbird Mockingbird Quotes

She 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.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.

Let the dead bury the dead.

It’s not necessary to tell all you know. It’s not ladylike–in the second place, folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do.

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

I’m gonna be a new kind of clown. I’m gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they’re still human.

I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.

I never expected any sort of success with ‘Mockingbird’… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

You can choose your friends, but you sho’ can’t choose your family.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

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.

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.

Things are never as bad as they seem.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.