Kill A Mockingbird Mockingbird Quotes

• Things are always better in the morning.

  Harper Lee

  Morning, Optimistic, Positivity

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• There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.

  Harper Lee

  Jobs, Father, Men

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.

  Harper Lee

  Children, Tkam, Sake

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike -- in the second place, folks don't like to have someone around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates them. Your 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

  Change, Mouths, Want

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• Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of another... 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

  God, Men, Tkam

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, July 11, 1960.

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• Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

  Harper Lee

  Winning, Years, Tkam

  Harper Lee (1970). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.20, Dramatic Publishing

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  People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

  Harper Lee

  Powerful, Tkam, People

  Harper Lee (1970). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.46, Dramatic Publishing

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• If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. It's because he wants to stay inside.

  Harper Lee

  Thinking, Tkam, House

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• Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.

  Harper Lee

  Good Luck, Tkam, Two

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.36, Infobase Publishing

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• Let the dead bury the dead.

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, Mockingbird, Kill A Mockingbird

  Christopher Sergel, Harper Lee (1995). “The Play of To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.102, Heinemann

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• Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.

  Harper Lee

  Father, Missing, Mockingbird

  Horton Foote, Harper Lee (1964). “The screenplay of To kill a mockingbird”

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• You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, Jem And Scout, Most Powerful

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, July 11, 1960.

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• 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

  Life, Men, Tkam

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.

  Harper Lee

  Silly, Tkam, Looks

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill A Mockingbird”, p.182, Random House

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• Things are never as bad as they seem.

  Harper Lee

  Mockingbird, Seems, Kill A Mockingbird

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, Laughing, Kind

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill A Mockingbird”, p.176, Random House

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

  Harper Lee

  Sweet, Naps, Sweat

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.20, Infobase Publishing

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

  Harper Lee

  Years, Tkam, Jem And Scout

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

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, People, Mad

  Harper Lee (1970). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.20, Dramatic Publishing

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• So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.

  Harper Lee

  Children, Character, Animal

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, 1962.

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

  Harper Lee

  Animal, Tkam, Gang

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, People, Jem And Scout

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, July 11, 1960.

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• It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike--in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do.

  Harper Lee

  Mockingbird, Folks, Knows

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• 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

  Men, Trying, Kind

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.

  Harper Lee

  Air, Way, Mockingbird

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1960.

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