To Kill A Mockingbird-Key Quotes

To Kill A Mockingbird-Key Quotes

1. Atticus Finch

   • "Atticus's only answer was for him to mind his own business and let the Radley's mind theirs"
   • "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb in his skin and walk around in it"
   • "Don't say nigger scout. That's common"
   • "I couldn't hold my head up in town, I couldn't represent this country in the legislature, I couldn't even tell you or Jem not to do something again."
   • "I hope and pray I can get Jem and Scout through without bitterness...without catching Maycomb's usual disease"
   • It's a sin to kill a mockingbird"
   • "I think maybe he put his gun down when he realised God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things"
   • "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"
   • "I couldn't go to church and worship God is I didn't help that man"
   • "Before I 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."
   • "Instead of getting the idea 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"
   • "Mr Cunningham's basically a good man...he just has his blind spots along with the rest of us"
   • "You'll have to excuse me, Miss Mayella"
   • "There are some men in this world who were born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them"
   • "Atticus Finch won't win, he can't win but he's the only man in these parts who can keep a jury out so long in a case like that"
   • "If spitting in my face and threatening me saved Mayella Ewell one extra beating, that's something I'll gladly take"
   • "There's nothing more sickening to me than a low-grade white man who'll take advantage of a Negro's ignorance"
   • "Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me...If I connived at something like this, frankly I couldn't meet his eye and the day i can't do that I'll know I've lost him. I don't want to lose him and Scout, because they;re all I've got"

2. Miss Maudie

   • "Mockingbird's don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy"
   • "There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live this one"
   • "I think maybe he put his gun down when he realised God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things"
   • "People in their right minds never take pride in their talents"
   • "Always wanted a smaller house, Jem Finch. Gives me more yard"
     • The children see courage here from Miss Maudie.
   • "There are some men in this world who were born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them"
     • Miss Maudie understands everything Atticus is trying to do and influences the children as she explaing to them what or why Atticus is doing what he is.
   • "Atticus Finch won't win, he can't win but he's the only man in these parts who can keep a jury out so long in a case like that"
   • "We're making a step-it's just a baby-step but it's a step"
   • "His food doesn't stick going down, does it?"

3. Scout Finch

   • "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"
   • "Jem had acquired an alien set of values and was trying to impose them on me"
   • "You made Walter Cunningham stand in my shoes for a minute"
   • "It came to me that Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world"
   • "Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'"
   • "I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks."
   • "Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back"
   • "Do you want to grow up to be a lawyer?" "Nome, just a lady"
   • "It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason"
     • Scout learns about Maycomb's prejudice through Dolphus Raymond.
   • "After all, if Aunty could be a lady at a time like this, so could I"
   • "We're paying the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to do right"
   • "I sometimes felt a twinge of remorse...at ever having taken part in what must have been sheer torment to Arthur Radley"
   • "Hey Boo"
   • "Jem, how can you hate Hitler so bad an' then turn around and be ugly about the folks right at home-?
   • "Well, it'd sort of be like shootin' a mockingbird, wouldn't it?
   • "I had never seen out neighbourhood from this angle"
   • "Atiticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough"
   • "There wasn't much else left for us to learn, except possibly algebra"
   • "Boo's children needed him"
   • "Atticus, he was real nice"