More quotes by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

"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."
"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em."
"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."
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."