Quotes By Harper Lee

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

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

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.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

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

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

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.

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.

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

Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.

I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.