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Harper Lee Quotes & Sayings

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He said I was the only girl he would ever love, then he neglected me. I beat him up, but it did no good. — Harper Lee

(What was there for Harper Lee to be afraid of, after all? Possibly just this: That she could not outdo Harper Lee.) — Elizabeth Gilbert

Anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection — Harper Lee

But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down ... — Harper Lee

The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets
— Harper Lee

It seems quixotic today, with jet airplanes and overdoses of Nembutal, that a man would go through a war for something so insignificant as his state. — Harper Lee

That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. — Harper Lee

I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to. — Harper Lee

Jesus Christ never went around grumbling and complaining — Harper Lee

She looked at Maycomb, and her throat tightened: Maycomb was looking back at her. — Harper Lee

Besides, nothin's real scary except in books." Atticus — Harper Lee

There's nothing like a blood-curdling hymn to make you feel at home, — Harper Lee

Jean Louise, did you come down on the train Like That? — Harper Lee

He won an acquittal for a colored boy on a rape charge. — Harper Lee

I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea. — Harper Lee

Pointed dramatically upward. "Look," he said. "Look, all of — Harper Lee

I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again. — Harper Lee

sometimes. . . . She slowed — Harper Lee

You who called me Scout are dead and in your grave. — Harper Lee

Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan ... The Ku Klux's gone ... It'll never come back. — Harper Lee

Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood, — Harper Lee

Colonel Maycomb's misplaced self-confidence and slender sense of direction brought disaster to all who rode with him in the Creek Indian Wars. — Harper Lee

The Lord never sends you more than you can bear - — Harper Lee

You deny them hope ... You are telling them that Jesus loves them, but not much. — Harper Lee

under the live oaks on the square. Attentive critics of courthouse business, Atticus said — Harper Lee

What do you want me to do, go shout from the housetops that I am Henry Clinton and I'm here to tell you you're all wet? — Harper Lee

That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear? — Harper Lee

When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. — Harper Lee

The only way in which all men in America are equal, is in the courtroom - Atticus — Harper Lee

One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them. — Harper Lee

We Finches don't marry the children of rednecked white trash. — Harper Lee

Love whom you will but marry your own kind was a dictum amounting to instinct within her. — Harper Lee

You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk one. — Harper Lee

Scout Finch, juvenile desperado, hellraiser extraordinary. — Harper Lee

It's better to be silent than to be a fool. — Harper Lee

You'll get your head shot off, Jem. — Harper Lee

In their own way, Tom Robinson's manners were as good as Atticus's — Harper Lee

Predict the actions of every conductor from New Orleans to Cincinnati, would — Harper Lee

Herbert Jemson was Methodist of the whole cloth: he was notoriously short on theology and a mile long on good works. — Harper Lee

Hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch — Harper Lee

After all, if Aunty could be a lady at a time like this, so could I. — Harper Lee

There was no mistaking it, Albert had stuck out his tongue at her. She was pregnant. Jean — Harper Lee

I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason. — Harper Lee

But Cal," Jem protested, "you don't look even near as old as Atticus."
"Colored folks don't show their ages so fast," she said. — Harper Lee

Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean. — Harper Lee

No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change — Harper Lee

No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her
afterwards. - Atticus Finch — Harper Lee

She was born in the Objective case. — Harper Lee

There was no doubt about it: Alexandra Finch Hancock was imposing from any angle; her behind was no less uncompromising than her front. — Harper Lee

We generally get the juries we deserve. — Harper Lee

Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers. — Harper Lee

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think. — Harper Lee

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. — Harper Lee

It's grown people who always believe the worst — Harper Lee

She would have pondered over the meaninglessness of silent, austere beauty renewing itself with every sunrise and going ungazed at by half the world. — Harper Lee

There was no doubt about it, I must soon enter this world, where on its surface fragrant ladies rocked slowly, fanned gently, and drank cool water. — Harper Lee

Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere. — Harper Lee

Dill, whenever they paused in their pursuits: — Harper Lee

Scout- .. Uncle Jack?"

Uncle Jack- "Ma'am?"

Scout- "What's a whore-lady? — Harper Lee

I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it. — Harper Lee

Education than most coloured folks. When she squinted — Harper Lee

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

I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read — Harper Lee

It's alive!" she screamed. The — Harper Lee

Miss Maudie's hand closed tightly on mine, and I said nothing. Its warmth was enough. — Harper Lee

I'm a big fan of the Foo Fighters, Ben Harper, Amos Lee, Coldplay, Corinne Bailey Rae and Chris Thile ... to name a few. — Jimi Westbrook

Jem, she's old and ill. You can't hold her responsible for what she says and does. — Harper Lee

Blind, that's what I am. I never opened my eyes. I never thought to look into people's hearts, I looked only in their faces. — Harper Lee

There are ways of doing things you dont't know about — Harper Lee

If we followed our feelings all the time, we'd be like cats chasin' their tails. — Harper Lee

He's freed himself from every stigma, but he sits nursing his hangover of hatred ... . — Harper Lee

Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. — Harper Lee

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

Hadn't we better go to the livingroom? — Harper Lee

There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible. — Harper Lee

Cynical, hell. I'm a healthy old man with a constitutional mistrust of paternalism and government in large doses. — Harper Lee

As a reader I loathe introductions ... Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity. — Harper Lee

Atticus is a gentleman, just like me! — Harper Lee

Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night — Harper Lee

... something's wrong with me, it's something about me. It has to be because all these people cannot have changed. — Harper Lee

She had cool green eyes and jet hair, a quick smile, and was the type of girl Jem fell for with monotonous regularity. — Harper Lee

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. — Harper Lee

children get to bed now. — Harper Lee

We have to do a lot of things we don't want to do, Jean Louise." She blazed. "What kind of answer is that? — Harper Lee

First thing you learn when you're in a lawin' family is that there ain't any definite answers to anything. — Harper Lee

Henry," she said primly, "I'll have an affair with you but I won't marry you. — Harper Lee

Atticus's wisdom; he was growing old and he wanted to die safe in the knowledge that his daughter could fend for herself. — Harper Lee

she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. — Harper Lee

When I was married, I didn't work. When I had my children, I didn't work. But before that, I'd work for Diana Vreeland at 'Harper's Bazaar.' — Lee Radziwill

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. — Harper Lee

It ain't time to worry yet. I'll let you know when. — Harper Lee

Sometimes I just don't vote my convictions, that's all. — Harper Lee

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here. — Harper Lee

Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings. — Harper Lee

By the time I'm ready to get married I'll be ninety and then it'll be too late. — Harper Lee

I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a
woman to do that kind of work. — Harper Lee

A man can appear to be a part of something not-so-good on its face, but don't take it upon yourself to judge him unless you know his motives as well. — Harper Lee

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about? — Harper Lee

Cecil Jacobs is a big wet hen! — Harper Lee

One does not love breathing. — Harper Lee