17 Unforgettable Best Quotes from
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
that will touch your heart
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”“Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em.”'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. '“With him, life was routine, without him, life was unbearable.” – Scot about Dill
“In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to belive one’s mind incapable of definite purpose.”
With his infinite capacity for calming turbulent seas, he could make a rape case as dry as a sermon – Scot about Atticus FinchAll the little white man on the witness stand had that made him any better than his nearest (black) neighbors was that, if he scrubbed with lye soap in very hot water, his skin was white.“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”“As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash”“People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.”“Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?”“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
“It's not time to worry yet.”“I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.”
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Born in Monroeville, Alabama in 1926, Harper Lee was a graduate of Huntingdon College and studied law at the University of Alabama. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel 'To Kill A Mockingbird’ among several other prestigious literary awards and honours. She passed away on 19th of February, 2016.
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