Harper Lee Quotes

"But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men."

"I do my best to love everybody"

"It's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

"Just standing on the Radley porch was enough."

"One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them"

"Real courage is [...] when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

"Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant."

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

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

"There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn't be fair if they tried."

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake."

"You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change."

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view […] until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."