To Kill a Mockingbird

"The handful of people in this town who say that fair play is not marked for certain people don't amount to much."

"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy."

"I wish Bob Ewell wouldn't chew gum in the courtroom."

"There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son."

"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."

"That boy is your responsibility now."

"I'm simply defending a Negro man."

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."

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

"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but whenever a white man does it to a black man, that white man is trash."

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

"The main objective of every lawyer is to judge."

"Things are never as bad as they seem."

"We're making a new start."

"An' they chased us 'n we couldn't do nothin', but just stand there 'n take it."

"Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it."

"She was not a woman, but a narrow column of flame."

"Atticus said to Jem one day, 'I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you'll go after birds.'"

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway."

"I'm simply defending a Negro man."

"There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you."

"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life."

"People in their right minds never take pride in their talents."

"Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself."

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."

"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 to try to win."