Top 500 Harper Lee Quotes (2024 Update)
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Harper Lee Quote: “Lightning rods guarding some graves denoted dead who rested uneasily; stumps of burned-out candles stood at the heads of infant graves. It was a happy cemetery.”

151. “Lightning rods guarding some graves denoted dead who rested uneasily; stumps of burned-out candles stood at the heads of infant graves. It was a happy cemetery.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.”

152. “Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.”

153. “Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.”

Harper Lee Quote: “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. As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it – whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.”

154. “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. As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it – whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.”

Harper Lee Quote: “He said I was the only girl he would ever love, then he neglected me. I beat him up, but it did no good.”

155. “He said I was the only girl he would ever love, then he neglected me. I beat him up, but it did no good.”

Harper Lee Quote: “One could be a ray of sunshine in pants as well. -Scout Finch.”

156. “One could be a ray of sunshine in pants as well. -Scout Finch.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up. I am confident that you gentlemen will review without passion the evidence you have heard, come to a decision, and restore this defendant to his family. In the name of God, do your duty.” Atticus’s.”

157. “Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up. I am confident that you gentlemen will review without passion the evidence you have heard, come to a decision, and restore this defendant to his family. In the name of God, do your duty.” Atticus’s.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Sometimes I think I’m a total failure as a parent, but I’m all they’ve got. Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.”

158. “Sometimes I think I’m a total failure as a parent, but I’m all they’ve got. Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.”

Harper Lee Quote: “I had a feeling that I shouldn’t be here listening to this sinful man who had mixed children and didn’t care who knew it, but he was fascinating. I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetrated fraud against himself. But why had he entrusted us with his deepest secret? I asked him why. ‘Because you’re children and you can unterstand it,’ he said.”

159. “I had a feeling that I shouldn’t be here listening to this sinful man who had mixed children and didn’t care who knew it, but he was fascinating. I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetrated fraud against himself. But why had he entrusted us with his deepest secret? I asked him why. ‘Because you’re children and you can unterstand it,’ he said.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father’s passin’.”

160. “Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father’s passin’.”

Harper Lee Quote: “We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.”

161. “We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Hey, Boo,” I said.”

162. “Hey, Boo,” I said.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.”

163. “Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.”

164. “Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between.”

165. “Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between.”

Harper Lee Quote: “He’s the same in the court-room as he is on the public streets.”

166. “He’s the same in the court-room as he is on the public streets.”

Harper Lee Quote: “There’s some folks who don’t eat like us,” she whispered fiercely, “but you ain’t called on to contradict ‘em at the table when they don’t. That boy’s yo’ comp’ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear?”

167. “There’s some folks who don’t eat like us,” she whispered fiercely, “but you ain’t called on to contradict ‘em at the table when they don’t. That boy’s yo’ comp’ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear?”

Harper Lee Quote: “She’s an old lady and she’s ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.”

168. “She’s an old lady and she’s ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.”

Harper Lee Quote: “He did not do the things our schoolmates’ fathers did: he never went hunting, he did not play poker or fish or drink or smoke. He sat in the livingroom and read.”

169. “He did not do the things our schoolmates’ fathers did: he never went hunting, he did not play poker or fish or drink or smoke. He sat in the livingroom and read.”

Harper Lee Quote: “My Lord, Aunt Stephanie, you almost gave me a heart attack!”

170. “My Lord, Aunt Stephanie, you almost gave me a heart attack!”

Harper Lee Quote: “And don’t you fret yourself about anything – why, if we followed our feelings all the time we’d be like cats chasin’ their tails.”

171. “And don’t you fret yourself about anything – why, if we followed our feelings all the time we’d be like cats chasin’ their tails.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.”

172. “Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.”

173. “Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.”

Harper Lee Quote: “All the little man on the witness stand had that made him any better than his nearest neighbours was that, if scrubbed with lye soap in very hot water, his skin was white.”

174. “All the little man on the witness stand had that made him any better than his nearest neighbours was that, if scrubbed with lye soap in very hot water, his skin was white.”

Harper Lee Quote: “No war was ever fought for so many different reasons.”

175. “No war was ever fought for so many different reasons.”

Harper Lee Quote: “You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.”

176. “You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.”

Harper Lee Quote: “I proved him a liar but John made him look like a fool. All the time Ewell was on the stand I couldn’t dare look at John and keep a straight face. John looked at him as if he were a three-legged chicken or a square egg. Don’t tell me judges don’t try to prejudice juries.”

177. “I proved him a liar but John made him look like a fool. All the time Ewell was on the stand I couldn’t dare look at John and keep a straight face. John looked at him as if he were a three-legged chicken or a square egg. Don’t tell me judges don’t try to prejudice juries.”

Harper Lee Quote: “They said if he’d had two good arms he’d have made it, he was moving that fast. Seventeen bullet holes in him. They didn’t have to shoot him that much.”

178. “They said if he’d had two good arms he’d have made it, he was moving that fast. Seventeen bullet holes in him. They didn’t have to shoot him that much.”

Harper Lee Quote: “I interrupted to make Uncle Jack let me know when he would pull it out, but he held up a bloody splinter in a pair of tweezers and said he yanked it while I was laughing, that was what was known as relativity.”

179. “I interrupted to make Uncle Jack let me know when he would pull it out, but he held up a bloody splinter in a pair of tweezers and said he yanked it while I was laughing, that was what was known as relativity.”

Harper Lee Quote: “She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.”

180. “She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Aunty,” she said, cordially, “why don’t you go pee in your hat?”

181. “Aunty,” she said, cordially, “why don’t you go pee in your hat?”

Harper Lee Quote: “His food doesn’t stick going down, does it?”

182. “His food doesn’t stick going down, does it?”

Harper Lee Quote: “Autumn was her happiest season. There was an expectancy about its sounds and shapes:.”

183. “Autumn was her happiest season. There was an expectancy about its sounds and shapes:.”

Harper Lee Quote: “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.”

184. “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 Quote: “Of course he shouldn’t, but he’ll never change his ways. Are you going to take out your disapproval on his children?”

185. “Of course he shouldn’t, but he’ll never change his ways. Are you going to take out your disapproval on his children?”

Harper Lee Quote: “What would Atticus do?” passed through her unconscious; she never realized what made her dig in her feet and stand firm whenever she did was her father; that whatever was decent and of good report in her character was put there by her father; she did not know that she worshiped him.”

186. “What would Atticus do?” passed through her unconscious; she never realized what made her dig in her feet and stand firm whenever she did was her father; that whatever was decent and of good report in her character was put there by her father; she did not know that she worshiped him.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.”

187. “Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.”

Harper Lee Quote: “I wanted you to see something about her – 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 when you know 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. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.”

188. “I wanted you to see something about her – 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 when you know 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. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscious.”

189. “Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscious.”

Harper Lee Quote: “You deny them hope. Any man in this world, Atticus, any man who has a head and arms and legs, was born with hope in his heart. You won’t find that in the Constitution, I picked that up in church somewhere. They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn’t make them subhuman.”

190. “You deny them hope. Any man in this world, Atticus, any man who has a head and arms and legs, was born with hope in his heart. You won’t find that in the Constitution, I picked that up in church somewhere. They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn’t make them subhuman.”

Harper Lee Quote: “She was born in the Objective case.”

191. “She was born in the Objective case.”

Harper Lee Quote: “When you get past all the boa feathers, every woman born in this world wants a strong man who knows her like a book, who’s not only her lover but he who keepeth Israel. Stupid, isn’t it?”

192. “When you get past all the boa feathers, every woman born in this world wants a strong man who knows her like a book, who’s not only her lover but he who keepeth Israel. Stupid, isn’t it?”

Harper Lee Quote: “I guess it’s like an airplane: they’re the drag and we’re the thrust, together we make the thing fly. Too much of us and we’re nose-heavy, too much of them and we’re tail-heavy – it’s a matter of balance.”

193. “I guess it’s like an airplane: they’re the drag and we’re the thrust, together we make the thing fly. Too much of us and we’re nose-heavy, too much of them and we’re tail-heavy – it’s a matter of balance.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Integrity, humor, and patience were the three words for Atticus Finch.”

194. “Integrity, humor, and patience were the three words for Atticus Finch.”

Harper Lee Quote: “She printed DEMOCRACY in large letters. ‘Democracy,’ she said. ‘Does anybody have a definition?’ ‘Us,’ somebody said. I raised my hand, remembering an old campaign slogan Atticus had once told me about. ‘What do you think it means, Jean Louise?’ ‘“Equal rights for all, special privileges for none!”,’ I quoted.”

195. “She printed DEMOCRACY in large letters. ‘Democracy,’ she said. ‘Does anybody have a definition?’ ‘Us,’ somebody said. I raised my hand, remembering an old campaign slogan Atticus had once told me about. ‘What do you think it means, Jean Louise?’ ‘“Equal rights for all, special privileges for none!”,’ I quoted.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Summer, and he watched his children’s heart break.”

196. “Summer, and he watched his children’s heart break.”

Harper Lee Quote: “But a man who has lived by truth – and you have believed in what he has lived – he does not leave you merely wary when he fails you, he leaves you with nothing. I think that is why I’m nearly out of my mind.”

197. “But a man who has lived by truth – and you have believed in what he has lived – he does not leave you merely wary when he fails you, he leaves you with nothing. I think that is why I’m nearly out of my mind.”

Harper Lee Quote: “It seems to me, that love could be labeled poison and we’d drink it anyways.”

198. “It seems to me, that love could be labeled poison and we’d drink it anyways.”

Harper Lee Quote: “One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can’t do anything about them.”

199. “One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can’t do anything about them.”

Harper Lee Quote: “She was the bravest person I ever knew.”

200. “She was the bravest person I ever knew.”

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