To Kill a Mockingbird

"Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with all nice children."

"There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with."

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

"Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings."

"You see, we're the same folks as the Cunninghams, except the Cunninghams never took anything they couldn't pay back."

"If you just learn a single trick you'll get along fine. If you can learn just one thing, you'll be okay."

"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow."

"Atticus was right. One time he said you never really understand a person until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them."

"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks."

"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens or nest in corncribs, they just sing their hearts out."

"Shoot all the bluejays 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."

"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 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."

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through."

"Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us to try to win."

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

"He's not an unhappy man, though he's never been anything but courteous and respectful to me."

"The only thing that's important is the truth."

"A person is smart. People are dumb."

"I wanted you to see what real courage is."

"Sometimes it's better to turn a blind eye and deaf ear."

"You've got to be honest about what you see and what you hear."

"She was brave. She had to be brave."

"I'm simply defending the innocent."

"It doesn't matter who you are or where you're from. What matters is how you treat people."

"The days of using the law to oppress people should be over."

"That's not what I intend to do."

"Maybe we need a police force."