To Kill a Mockingbird

"Gentlemen, a court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up."

"After all, if Atticus Finch drank until he was drunk he wouldn't be as good as he is now."

"That's the only thing I think that makes any difference."

"I believe the simple hell of it is that I am innocent."

"The witnesses for the state have presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this town, to this state, without coming to grips with this case at all."

"I'm simply defending the real love of my life."

"Bad language is a stage all children go through."

"It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through."

"I hope Jem and Scout's children will be children when they grow up."

"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it— whenever a white man does that to a black man, that white man is trash."

"The simple hell of it is, as I lay dying, I'm not worth the bullet it would take to shoot me."

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

"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."

"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."

"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win."

"I'm very sorry for her. She will never understand what happened."

"That's what I mean by real courage, as opposed to physical courage."

"I'm giving you permission to look after these children."

"You don't understand what it was about the courtroom."

"There are just some kind of men who are so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one."

"It's easy to think about things."

"I wanted to grow up and be a lawyer."

"There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads."

"My father in his quiet way was the bravest man who ever lived."

"It is an ancient piece of architecture."

"The only thing we've got is each other."

"Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, another dirty word."

"Our compromise with the judge was simply that we should hold a candle for them."

"Scout, you mustn't be deceived by the things you have learned."