Top 500 Harper Lee Quotes (2024 Update)
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Harper Lee Quote: “Sometimes we have to kill a little so we can live.”

201. “Sometimes we have to kill a little so we can live.”

Harper Lee Quote: “I don’t hafta take his sass.”

202. “I don’t hafta take his sass.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature.”

203. “Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature.”

Harper Lee Quote: “I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?” “The way you tell it, it is.”

204. “I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?” “The way you tell it, it is.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Mutual defiance made them alike.”

205. “Mutual defiance made them alike.”

Harper Lee Quote: “My book had a universal theme. It’s not a “racial” novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.”

206. “My book had a universal theme. It’s not a “racial” novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.”

Harper Lee Quote: “What does a bigot do when he meets someone who challenges his opinions? He doesn’t give. He stays rigid. Doesn’t even try to listen, just lashes out.”

207. “What does a bigot do when he meets someone who challenges his opinions? He doesn’t give. He stays rigid. Doesn’t even try to listen, just lashes out.”

Harper Lee Quote: “I thought I was a Christian but I’m not. I’m something else and I don’t know what. Everything I have ever taken for right and wrong these people have taught me – these same, these very people. So it’s me, it’s not them. Something has happened to me.”

208. “I thought I was a Christian but I’m not. I’m something else and I don’t know what. Everything I have ever taken for right and wrong these people have taught me – these same, these very people. So it’s me, it’s not them. Something has happened to me.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Summer was our best season – everything good to eat, a thousand colors in a parched landscape.”

209. “Summer was our best season – everything good to eat, a thousand colors in a parched landscape.”

Harper Lee Quote: “The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.”

210. “The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.”

Harper Lee Quote: “The one human being she had ever fully and wholeheartedly trusted had failed her; the only man she had ever known to whom she could point and say with expert knowledge, “He is a gentleman, in his heart he is a gentleman,” had betrayed her, publicly, grossly, and shamelessly.”

211. “The one human being she had ever fully and wholeheartedly trusted had failed her; the only man she had ever known to whom she could point and say with expert knowledge, “He is a gentleman, in his heart he is a gentleman,” had betrayed her, publicly, grossly, and shamelessly.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Of course Jem antagonized me sometimes until I could kill him, but when it came down to it he was all I had.”

212. “Of course Jem antagonized me sometimes until I could kill him, but when it came down to it he was all I had.”

Harper Lee Quote: “There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads – they couldn’t be fair if they tried.”

213. “There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads – they couldn’t be fair if they tried.”

Harper Lee Quote: “You got it backwards, Dill,’ said Jem. ‘Clowns are sad, it’s folks that laugh at them.”

214. “You got it backwards, Dill,’ said Jem. ‘Clowns are sad, it’s folks that laugh at them.”

Harper Lee Quote: “My father is one of the few men I’ve known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He has absolutely no ego drive, and so he is one of the most beloved men in this part of the state.”

215. “My father is one of the few men I’ve known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He has absolutely no ego drive, and so he is one of the most beloved men in this part of the state.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Adevaratul curaj este sa stii caesti invins de la bun inceput, dar sa nu renunti totusi la lupta.”

216. “Adevaratul curaj este sa stii caesti invins de la bun inceput, dar sa nu renunti totusi la lupta.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Love whom you will but marry your own kind was a dictum amounting to instinct within her.”

217. “Love whom you will but marry your own kind was a dictum amounting to instinct within her.”

Harper Lee Quote: “She was almost in love with him. No, that’s impossible, she thought: either you are or you aren’t. Love’s the only thing in this world that is unequivocal. There are different kinds of love, certainly, but it’s a you-do or you-don’t proposition with them all.”

218. “She was almost in love with him. No, that’s impossible, she thought: either you are or you aren’t. Love’s the only thing in this world that is unequivocal. There are different kinds of love, certainly, but it’s a you-do or you-don’t proposition with them all.”

Harper Lee Quote: “One time I asked her to have a chew and she said no thanks, that – chewing gum cleaved to her palate and rendered her speechless,” said Jem carefully. “Doesn’t that sound nice?”

219. “One time I asked her to have a chew and she said no thanks, that – chewing gum cleaved to her palate and rendered her speechless,” said Jem carefully. “Doesn’t that sound nice?”

Harper Lee Quote: “I should like to take your head apart, put a fact in it, and watch it go its way through the runnels of your brain until it comes out of your mouth. We were both born here, we went to the same schools, we were taught the same things. I wonder what you saw and heard.”

220. “I should like to take your head apart, put a fact in it, and watch it go its way through the runnels of your brain until it comes out of your mouth. We were both born here, we went to the same schools, we were taught the same things. I wonder what you saw and heard.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Te digan lo que te digan, no permitas que te hagan perder los nervios. Procura luchar con el cerebro, para variar...”

221. “Te digan lo que te digan, no permitas que te hagan perder los nervios. Procura luchar con el cerebro, para variar...”

Harper Lee Quote: “The dark tower. Childe Roland to the dark tower came.”

222. “The dark tower. Childe Roland to the dark tower came.”

Harper Lee Quote: “As you grew up, when you were grown, totally unknown to yourself, you confused your father with God. You never saw him as a man with a man’s heart, and a man’s failings – I’ll grant you it may have been hard to see, he makes so few mistakes, but he makes ’em like all of us.”

223. “As you grew up, when you were grown, totally unknown to yourself, you confused your father with God. You never saw him as a man with a man’s heart, and a man’s failings – I’ll grant you it may have been hard to see, he makes so few mistakes, but he makes ’em like all of us.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Don’t matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house’s yo’ comp’ny, and don’t you let me catch you remarkin’ on their ways like you was so high and and mighty! Yo’ folks might be better’n the Cunninghams but it don’t count for nothin’ the way you’re disgracin’ ’em.”

224. “Don’t matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house’s yo’ comp’ny, and don’t you let me catch you remarkin’ on their ways like you was so high and and mighty! Yo’ folks might be better’n the Cunninghams but it don’t count for nothin’ the way you’re disgracin’ ’em.”

Harper Lee Quote: “When Atticus came home to dinner he found me crouched down aiming across the street. “What are you shooting at?” “Miss Maudie’s rear end.” Atticus turned and saw my generous target bending over her bushes. He pushed his hat to the back of his head and crossed the street. “Maudie,” he called, “I thought I’d better warn you. You’re in considerable peril.”

225. “When Atticus came home to dinner he found me crouched down aiming across the street. “What are you shooting at?” “Miss Maudie’s rear end.” Atticus turned and saw my generous target bending over her bushes. He pushed his hat to the back of his head and crossed the street. “Maudie,” he called, “I thought I’d better warn you. You’re in considerable peril.”

Harper Lee Quote: “I heard ‘Equal rights for all; special privileges for none,’ and to me it didn’t mean anything but what it said.”

226. “I heard ‘Equal rights for all; special privileges for none,’ and to me it didn’t mean anything but what it said.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Atticus said to Jem one day, “I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. “Your father’s right,” she said. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

227. “Atticus said to Jem one day, “I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. “Your father’s right,” she said. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

Harper Lee Quote: “I guess when you’re hurt your first instinct’s to hurt back.”

228. “I guess when you’re hurt your first instinct’s to hurt back.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Matches were dangerous, but cards were fatal.”

229. “Matches were dangerous, but cards were fatal.”

Harper Lee Quote: “I am their blood and bones, I have dug in this ground, this is my home. But I am not their blood, the ground doesn’t care who digs it, I am a stranger at a cocktail party.”

230. “I am their blood and bones, I have dug in this ground, this is my home. But I am not their blood, the ground doesn’t care who digs it, I am a stranger at a cocktail party.”

Harper Lee Quote: “It ain’t time to worry yet. I’ll let you know when.”

231. “It ain’t time to worry yet. I’ll let you know when.”

Harper Lee Quote: “I willed myself to stay awake, but the rain was so soft and the room was so warm and his voice was so deep and his knee was so snug that I slept.”

232. “I willed myself to stay awake, but the rain was so soft and the room was so warm and his voice was so deep and his knee was so snug that I slept.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience.”

233. “Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience.”

Harper Lee Quote: “We are making a step. It’s just a baby step but it’s a step.”

234. “We are making a step. It’s just a baby step but it’s a step.”

Harper Lee Quote: “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. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. 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. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

235. “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. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. 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. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Colonel Maycomb’s misplaced self-confidence and slender sense of direction brought disaster to all who rode with him in the Creek Indian Wars.”

236. “Colonel Maycomb’s misplaced self-confidence and slender sense of direction brought disaster to all who rode with him in the Creek Indian Wars.”

Harper Lee Quote: “When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it.”

237. “When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Scout Finch, juvenile desperado, hellraiser extraordinary.”

238. “Scout Finch, juvenile desperado, hellraiser extraordinary.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Go away, the old buildings said. There is no place for you here. You are not wanted. We have secrets.”

239. “Go away, the old buildings said. There is no place for you here. You are not wanted. We have secrets.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Until comparatively recently in its history, Maycomb County was so cut off from the rest of the nation that some of its citizens, unaware of the South’s political predilections over the past ninety years, still voted Republican.”

240. “Until comparatively recently in its history, Maycomb County was so cut off from the rest of the nation that some of its citizens, unaware of the South’s political predilections over the past ninety years, still voted Republican.”

Harper Lee Quote: “I’ll never forgive you for what you did to me. You cheated me, you’ve driven me out of my home and now I’m in a no-man’s-land but good – there’s no place for me any more in Maycomb, and I’ll never be entirely at home anywhere else.” Her.”

241. “I’ll never forgive you for what you did to me. You cheated me, you’ve driven me out of my home and now I’m in a no-man’s-land but good – there’s no place for me any more in Maycomb, and I’ll never be entirely at home anywhere else.” Her.”

Harper Lee Quote: “I was proceeding on the dim theory, aside from the innate attractiveness of such words, that if Atticus discovered I had picked them up at school he wouldn’t make me go.”

242. “I was proceeding on the dim theory, aside from the innate attractiveness of such words, that if Atticus discovered I had picked them up at school he wouldn’t make me go.”

Harper Lee Quote: “By the time I’m ready to get married I’ll be ninety and then it’ll be too late.”

243. “By the time I’m ready to get married I’ll be ninety and then it’ll be too late.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Cry about the simple hell people give other people – without even thinking.”

244. “Cry about the simple hell people give other people – without even thinking.”

Harper Lee Quote: “You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He’s asleep...”

245. “You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He’s asleep...”

Harper Lee Quote: “I wasn’t supposed to be doing things that required pants.”

246. “I wasn’t supposed to be doing things that required pants.”

Harper Lee Quote: “I could think of nothing else to say to her. In fact I could never think of anything to say to her, and I sat thinking of past painful conversations between us: How are you, Jean Louise? Fine, thank you ma’am, how are you? Very well, thank you; what have you been doing with yourself? Nothin’. Don’t you do anything? Nome. Certainly you have friends? Yessum. Well what do you all do? Nothin’.”

247. “I could think of nothing else to say to her. In fact I could never think of anything to say to her, and I sat thinking of past painful conversations between us: How are you, Jean Louise? Fine, thank you ma’am, how are you? Very well, thank you; what have you been doing with yourself? Nothin’. Don’t you do anything? Nome. Certainly you have friends? Yessum. Well what do you all do? Nothin’.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up – some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal.”

248. “Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up – some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal.”

Harper Lee Quote: “You folks might be better than the Cunninghams, but it doesn’t count for nothing the way you’re disgracing them.”

249. “You folks might be better than the Cunninghams, but it doesn’t count for nothing the way you’re disgracing them.”

Harper Lee Quote: “Don’t push her. Let her go at her own speed. Push her and every mule in the county’d be easier to live with.”

250. “Don’t push her. Let her go at her own speed. Push her and every mule in the county’d be easier to live with.”

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