Scout Finch

Character in To Kill a Mockingbird From: To Kill a Mockingbird

Young narrator and protagonist

202 quotes

"I wanted to see what went on behind closed doors."
"An' they chased him 'n' they beat him."
Fear
"But he's innocent!"
Justice
"I thought Atticus Finch would be a dead bore, but he wasn't."
"Maybe we need a police force of children."
Humor
"Maycomb is an old town, but it was on an Indian reservation before that."
History
"The Radley House was concrete evidence of trashy surrounding."
"She was still on the bed, still looking straight ahead."
Fear
"I shut my eyes. Judge Taylor might have seen me anyway, but Atticus didn't."
"The courthouse seemed to loom bigger each time I saw it."
Fear
"But he's a lawyer, Atticus."
"The Maycomb County courthouse was faintly reminiscent of Arlington in moonlight."
"Sometimes I felt a twinge of remorse, when passing by the Radley place."
"Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets."
"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks."
Kindness
"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks."
Kindness
"We're the same folks, only the Ewells live like animals."
Kindness
"How could I hold my head up to anyone if I couldn't even tell the truth?"
Truth
"We're making a new start, Atticus and I."
Hope
"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks."
Kindness
"Atticus says cheating never prospers."
Truth
"He said it was like a pink stalk covered with bloom."
Beauty
"We're the same."
Kindness
"It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived."
Courage
"Atticus had said it was the simple hell of white men."
Truth
"Dill was a curiosity."
Imagination
"The hell it is."
Humor
"Jem was a born hero, but I was a born cynic."
"Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it."
History
"Miss Maudie's god was a loving god."
Faith