More quotes by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"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."
"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."
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.- Atticus Finch"
"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for."
"Atticus, he was real nice.""Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."