To Kill a Mockingbird

"You know something, Miss Jean Louise, there's a lot of ugly things in this world."

"How could I hold my head up to anyone if I couldn't even tell the truth?"

"That boy is your company."

"Every jury gets a chance to supercede judges."

"I'm simply defending niggers."

"We're the same folks, only the Ewells live like animals."

"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box."

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

"This is their home, we're in their world."

"Common sense is something this fellow didn't have, not even one iota."

"The problem with Maycomb is, the people there are just now beginning to learn they've got to adopt policy, now."

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

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

"The simple hell of it is that I have no choice."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"We're definitely going to win this time."

"Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets."

"Sometimes I felt a twinge of remorse, when passing by the Radley place."

"You see, when you're old as I am you'll find that most of the things you worried about never happened."

"The Maycomb County courthouse was faintly reminiscent of Arlington in moonlight."

"Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."

"But he's a lawyer, Atticus."