To Kill a Mockingbird

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

"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."

"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."

"That's what I'm counting on."

"Life is difficult enough without it."

"It's a sin to kill them, you know."

"I wanted you to see something about her—I wanted you to see what real grace is."

"Some people are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us."

"You never know how much you're capable of until you try."

"I'm trying to teach you children something."

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

"It's going to be rough, but we'll get through it."

"I've no intention of lying to you."

"Real courage is when you know you're licked and you do it anyway."

"Things are never as bad as they seem."

"That's what I thought too, when I was your age."

"Do the best with what you've got."

"I see him as he really is—just a simple country man."

"Every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally."

"The time is now."

"I wanted him to feel easy in his mind."

"The truth, I suppose, is simple enough."

"We're the safest folks in the county."

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

"I just hope that Jem and Scout come to understand."

"You've got to make allowances for the simple hell of it."

"If you don't want to go, we'll not go."

"Cry about the simple hell of it."

"I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the wisdom of our judges."