Kill A Mockingbird Memorable Quotes

I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout

She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.

Atticus, he was real nice.” “Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.

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

I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system — that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

Things are always better in the morning.

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts.

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.

Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o’clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.

I think I’ll be a clown when I get grown…. There ain’t one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I’m gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

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…

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

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.

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.