Quotes By Author: Harper Lee

“Просто есть такие люди, они… они чересчур много думают о том свете и потому никак не научатся жить на этом.(Мисс Моди Эткинсон – Глазастику Финч)”

“But things are always better in the morning”

“Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.”

“Things are never as bad as they seem”

“When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.”

“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.”

“Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women – black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.”

“Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.”“I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?”“The way you tell it, it is.”

“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, and you can look down the street and see the results.”

“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.”

“I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin’ after you.”

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

“Atticus, he was real nice.””Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.”

“Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.”

“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.”