To Kill a Mockingbird Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Thank you for my children, Arthur.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Let the dead bury the dead.”

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

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

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

“Hey, Boo.”