Harper Lee Quotes

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

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

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

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

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

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

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

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.

Things are always better in the morning.

You can’t make yourself different.

The best way to learn is from other people’s mistakes.

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

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.

It’s never an insult to be called what you are. It’s only an insult to be called something that one is not.

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.

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

Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up is something I don’t pretend to understand.

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.

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

Things are always better in the morning.

You can’t make yourself different.

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

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.

It’s never an insult to be called what you are. It’s only an insult to be called something that one is not.

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.

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

Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up is something I don’t pretend to understand.

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.

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

Things are always better in the morning.

You can’t make yourself different.

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

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.

It’s never an insult to be called what you are. It’s only an insult to be called something that one is not.

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.

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

Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up is something I don’t pretend to understand.

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.

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

Things are always better in the morning.

You can’t make yourself different.

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

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.

It’s never an insult to be called what you are. It’s only an insult to be called something that one is not.

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.

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

Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up is something I don’t pretend to understand.