Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people a... - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
"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."
More quotes by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
"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."
"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks."
"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."
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."