Significant Quotes and Page Numbers in To Kill a Mockingbird
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience. (Chapter 11, page 120)
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. (Chapter 3, page 30)
Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. (Chapter 10, page 96)
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for. (Chapter 9, page 80)
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. (Chapter 11, page 121)
The day I stepped on a fuzzy gray ball, Scout, I understood God’s design. (Chapter 25, page 284)
Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience. (Chapter 11, page 120)
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. (Chapter 11, page 121)
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. (Chapter 3, page 30)
I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks. (Chapter 23, page 259)
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. (Chapter 9, page 82)
Significant Quotes and Page Numbers in To Kill a Mockingbird part 2
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. (Chapter 9, page 83)
People have a habit of doing that when they’re in law – I mean they articulate-well. (Chapter 9, page 84)
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. (Chapter 11, page 116)
Things are always better in the morning. (Chapter 27, page 299)
Sometimes, the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky 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. (Chapter 5, page 50)
All I can do is hope I get a good lawyer, and pray they don’t hang you beforehand. (Chapter 21, page 235)
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. (Chapter 3, page 35)
The thing about it is, our kind of folks don’t like the Cunninghams, the Cunninghams don’t like the Ewells, and the Ewells hate and despise the colored folks. (Chapter 16, page 178)
People don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ’em. (Chapter 9, page 83)
Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets. (Chapter 24, page 280)
Jem, see if you can stand in Bob Ewell’s shoes a minute. I destroyed his last shred of credibility at that trial, if he had any to begin with. The man had to have some kind of comeback, his kind always does. (Chapter 22, page 250)
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 see it through no matter what. (Chapter 11, page 112)
I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks. (Chapter 23, page 274)
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for. (Chapter 9, page 80)
The world’s ending, Atticus! Please do something! (Chapter 8, page 69)
Before I can live with other folks, I’ve got to live with myself. (Chapter 11, page 120)
They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions… but before I can live with other folks, I’ve got to live with myself. (Chapter 11, page 120)
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. (Chapter 11, page 134)
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. It aggravates ’em. (Chapter 9, page 82)
I was gratified to learn that I had inadvertently trained my father to be a gentleman. (Chapter 11, page 131)
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. (Chapter 10, page 119)
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win. (Chapter 9, page 88)
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