We vote by name in this society, not by acreage.
Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.
I should have roared you down when first you told me your suspicion. But I wilted, and, like a Christian, I confessed. Confessed! Some dream I had must have mistaken you for God that day.
If there’s just one kind of folks, why can’t they get along with each other? If they’re all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I’m beginning to understand something. I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time ... it’s because he wants to stay inside.
Don’t see how any jury could convict on what we heard.
Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy ... but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
I thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but now I ain't so sure.
Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of – oh, your father.
Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
The world was hers for the reading.