To Kill a Mockingbird

Book · 6 characters · 601 quotes · 1960

Quotes from To Kill a Mockingbird

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"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun"
Atticus Finch Courage
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"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but it's a sin to kill a mockingbird"
Miss Maudie Atkinson Wisdom
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"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway"
Atticus Finch Perseverance
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"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience"
Atticus Finch Justice
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"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us to try to win"
Atticus Finch Courage
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"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view"
Atticus Finch Wisdom
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"It's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
Miss Maudie Atkinson Kindness
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"Fort Finch was impregnable."
Scout Finch Imagination
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"We've still got each other."
Atticus Finch Family
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"I'm no better than they are."
Scout Finch
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"We're paying the highest tribute we can pay a man."
Atticus Finch
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"I hope the other rooms are cool."
Scout Finch Hope
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"It's not proper to talk about people this way."
Atticus Finch Kindness
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"Do the best you can with what you have."
Atticus Finch Wisdom
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"Being Southerners, it was a source of shame."
Scout Finch
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"This time we ain't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends."
Jem Finch War
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"I wanted to see what real courage is."
Atticus Finch Courage
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"Summer, and we had nothing to do."
Scout Finch Adventure
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"Cry about the simple hell of the fact that I love you."
Atticus Finch Love
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"We're the ones who have to pay."
Atticus Finch Justice
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"That's what I wanted to know."
Scout Finch
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"Our father didn't do anything."
Jem Finch
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"I could not possibly hope to see you practicing law, son, but I can see you practicing humility."
Atticus Finch Wisdom
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"You must never tell anybody what happened."
Scout Finch
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"That's what I thought too, once. I'm older now."
Miss Maudie Atkinson Time
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"It's not time to worry yet."
Atticus Finch Patience
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"There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads."
Atticus Finch Wisdom
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"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks."
Scout Finch Kindness
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"Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, another dirty word."
Scout Finch Faith
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"Every lawyer has a few cases in his lifetime which mean everything to him."
Atticus Finch Work