To Kill a Mockingbird

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

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

"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."

"We were paying the highest tribute we knew how."

"Inside that house waiting was my mother."

"The jury compared notes in the dark."

"The one thing that's constant in this world is that the good are often not appreciated."

"There are just some kind of men who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us."

"Atticus's courtroom manner had changed considerably."

"I maintain that the Ewells startled me, no more."

"The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first."

"Miss Maudie's god was a loving god."

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

"Bravery is when you're scared but you do it anyway."

"Jem was a born hero, but I was a born cynic."

"We do the best we can with the light we have."

"That negro yonder took him for a blue jay an' all."

"You hold your head up and take what comes, but you'll never let them drag you down."

"The hell it is."

"They're certainly interesting folk."

"What reasonable doubt is, gentlemen, is the kind of doubt that would make a reasonable man hesitate."

"It's all right to talk like Mr. Cunningham at home."

"The most boring child has something to offer."

"This is their home, we're just passing through."

"Dill was a curiosity."

"It's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is."

"You just hold your head high and keep those fists down."

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

"Atticus had said it was the simple hell of white men."

"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."