Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of — oh, of your father.
There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads — they couldn’t be fair if they tried.
When stalking one’s prey, it is best to take one’s time.
Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge.
Matches were dangerous, but cards were fatal.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don’t already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby-food.
Do it, and you’ll often get an answer you don’t want, an answer that might wreck your case.
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.
“Come on, Scout,” he whispered. “Don’t pay any attention to her, just hold your head high and be a gentleman.”
“Look here.” With a click of her tongue she thrust out her bridgework, a gesture of cordiality that cemented our friendship.
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.
He had asked me earlier in the summer to marry him, then he promptly forgot about it.
He staked me out, marked as his property, said I was the only girl he would ever love, then he neglected me.
I beat him up twice but it did no good.
She was one of the few women he could stand permanently.
There was no point in saying you were sorry if you aren’t.
"Atticus, you must be wrong....”
“How’s that?”
“Well, most folks seem to think they’re right and you’re wrong....”
“They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions,” said Atticus, “but 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.”
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