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To Kill A Mockingbird-Key Quotes
- Atticus Finch
- "Atticus's only answer
was for him to mind
his own business and
let the Radley's mind
theirs"
- "You never really understand
a person until you consider
things from his point of
view...until you climb in his
skin and walk around in it"
- "Don't say nigger
scout. That's common"
- "I couldn't hold my head up in town, I couldn't
represent this country in the legislature, I couldn't
even tell you or Jem not to do something again."
- "I hope and pray I
can get Jem and
Scout through
without
bitterness...without
catching Maycomb's
usual disease"
- It's a sin to kill a mockingbird"
- "I think maybe he put his gun down
when he realised God had given him an
unfair advantage over most living
things"
- "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"
- "I couldn't go to church and worship
God is I didn't help that man"
- "Before I live with other folks I've
got to live with myself. The one
thing that doesn't abide by
majority rule is a person's
conscience."
- "Instead of getting the idea courage is a man with
a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked
before you begin but you begin anyway and you
see it through no matter what"
- "Mr Cunningham's
basically a good
man...he just has his
blind spots along
with the rest of us"
- "You'll have to excuse me, Miss Mayella"
- "There are some men in this world who were
born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your
father's one of them"
- "Atticus Finch won't win, he can't win but
he's the only man in these parts who can
keep a jury out so long in a case like that"
- "If spitting in my face
and threatening me
saved Mayella Ewell one
extra beating, that's
something I'll gladly
take"
- "There's nothing more sickening to me than a low-grade
white man who'll take advantage of a Negro's ignorance"
- "Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at
me...If I connived at something like this, frankly
I couldn't meet his eye and the day i can't do
that I'll know I've lost him. I don't want to lose
him and Scout, because they;re all I've got"
- Miss Maudie
- "Mockingbird's don't
do one thing but make
music for us to enjoy"
- "There are just some kind of men
who-who're so busy worrying about the next
world they've never learned to live this one"
- "I think maybe he put his
gun down when he realised
God had given him an unfair
advantage over most living
things"
- "People in their right minds never take pride
in their talents"
- "Always wanted a smaller house, Jem Finch. Gives me more yard"
- The children see courage
here from Miss Maudie.
- "There are some men in this world who were born to do our
unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them"
- Miss Maudie understands everything Atticus is trying to do and
influences the children as she explaing to them what or why Atticus
is doing what he is.
- "Atticus Finch won't win, he can't win but
he's the only man in these parts who can
keep a jury out so long in a case like that"
- "We're making a step-it's just a
baby-step but it's a step"
- "His food doesn't stick going down, does it?"
- Scout Finch
- "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"
- "Jem had acquired an alien set of values
and was trying to impose them on me"
- "You made Walter Cunningham
stand in my shoes for a minute"
- "It came to me that
Mayella Ewell must
have been the loneliest
person in the world"
- "Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'"
- "I think there’s
just one kind of
folks. Folks."
- "Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back"
- "Do you want to grow up to be a lawyer?" "Nome, just a lady"
- "It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason"
- Scout learns about Maycomb's
prejudice through Dolphus
Raymond.
- "After all, if Aunty could be a
lady at a time like this, so could I"
- "We're paying the highest tribute we can
pay a man. We trust him to do right"
- "I sometimes felt a twinge of remorse...at
ever having taken part in what must have
been sheer torment to Arthur Radley"
- "Hey Boo"
- "Jem, how can you hate Hitler so bad
an' then turn around and be ugly about
the folks right at home-?
- "Well, it'd sort of be like shootin' a
mockingbird, wouldn't it?
- "I had never seen out neighbourhood from this angle"
- "Atiticus was right. One time he said you
never really know a man until you stand in
his shoes and walk around in them. Just
standing on the Radley porch was enough"
- "There wasn't much else left for us
to learn, except possibly algebra"
- "Boo's children needed him"
- "Atticus, he was real nice"