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
"Atticus, he was real nice.""Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."