Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the fa... - Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
"Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts."
More quotes by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
"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."
"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."
"In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose."
"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."
"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."