Harper Lee Quotes

“before I can 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.”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

topic:self

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

topic:understanding

“Things are never as bad as they seem.”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

topic:reality appearance

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

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

topic:religion living

“Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand…”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

topic:reason

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

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

topic:reading

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that 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. You rarely win, but...”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

topic:courage

“You're not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

topic:bravery

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