744 Quotes by Harper Lee

It had never fully occurred to Jean Louise that she was a girl: her life had been one of reckless, pummeling activity; fighting, football, climbing, keeping up with Jem, and besting anyone her own age in any contest requiring physical prowess.

They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman.You are telling them Jesus loves them, but not much.

Peki, niçin bize en gizli sırrını açmıştı? Nedenini sordum. -Çünkü siz çocuksunuz. Anlarsınız.

Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.

They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.

As Kipling said, that’s another story...

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, and you can look down the street and see the results.

Scout- .. Uncle Jack?"Uncle Jack- "Ma'am?"Scout- "What's a whore-lady?

But in the absence of eye-witness there's always a doubt, sometimes only the shadow of a doubt. The law says 'reasonable doubt', but I think a defendant's entitled to the shadow of doubt. There's always the possibility, no matter how improbable, that he's innocent.