More quotes by 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."
"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."
"Atticus, he was real nice.""Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."
"Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men."
"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."