Quotes from bookTo Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. Instantly successful, widely read in high schools and middle schools in the United States, it has become a classic of modern American literature, winning the Pulitzer Prize. The plot and characters are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family, her neighbors and an event that occurred near her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, in 1936, when she was 10 years old.
“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“Finders were keepers unless title was proven.”
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it.”
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“Nothing is more deadly than a deserted, waiting street.”
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.”
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.
Scout”
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Pt. 1, ch. 9
Atticus Finch
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Pt. 1, ch. 9
Atticus Finch
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
“People don’t like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them.”
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Pt. 2, ch. 12
Calpurnia
Variant: Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ‘em.
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Context: Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ‘em. You’re not gonna change any of them by talkin’ right, they’ve got to want to learn themselves, and when they don’t want to learn there’s nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.
“Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.”
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
