To Kill a Mockingbird Quotes

"...they'll do it again and when they do it - seems that only children weep.”

Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain,...and our lives.

"...we're paying him the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to do right."

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

...there are some good but misguided people in this town... who think they’re doing right

“Let the dead bury the dead.”

- if you fancy gentlemen aint gonna do nothin about it, then you're just a bunch of cowards!

“Shoot all the blue jays you want, ...but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

“The way that man called him ‘boy’ all the time and sneered at him... it just makes me sick.”

“Hey, Boo.”

"...I’m still sheriff of Maycomb County and Bob Ewell fell on his knife.”

"why Boo stayed shut up in the house all this time- it's because he wants to stay inside.”

There ain't one thing I can do "so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.”

"Miss Jean Louise, Stand up. You're father's passin'.”

“Well, it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?”

I’m not much of a drinker, but you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do

In the name of God, do your duty. In the name of God, believe Tom Robinson.”

"I felt sorry for her, she seemed to try more 'n the rest of 'em.”

“Thank you for my children, Arthur.”

“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy.”