Exploring the Memorable Quotes in To Kill a Mockingbird

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family.

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

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

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.

The only thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

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.

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us.

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

People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.

Sometimes it’s better to bend the rules, if it’s for the right thing.

It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.

I don’t know, but they did it. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it — seems that only children weep.

Exploring the Memorable Quotes in To Kill a Mockingbird part 2

Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It’s knowing you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

A mob is always made up of people, no matter what.

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts. That was the truth.

I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Are we as successful as we could be as a society if we don’t have a justice system that is for everyone?

It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird because all they do is make music for us to enjoy.

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

People don’t like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don’t you let ’em get your goat.

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.

You’ll understand folks a little better when you’re older. A mob’s always made up of people, no matter what.

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?

People who try to identify themselves and fail look around for somebody to take it out on.

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 not time to worry yet.

Well, they’re Southern people, and if they’re anything like the Cunninghams, they’re not going to look too hard for it, they’ll go on believing the trash they did before.

It’s not okay to hate anybody.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

Remember this also: it’s always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday…

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

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.

I’m simply defending a Negro—his name’s Tom Robinson. He lives in that little settlement beyond the town dump. He’s a member of Calpurnia’s church…

Before I can live with other folks, I’ve got to live with myself.

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.

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

You can’t go around making caricatures of people.

He can make somebody’s will so airtight can’t nobody meddle with it.

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

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

I don’t know, but they did it. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it — seems that only children weep.