| Quote | Character |
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| 'Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.' | |
| 'I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.' | |
| '...we're gonna win, Scout. I don't see how we can't.' | |
| 'I'm not much of a drinker, but you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.' | |
| 'Will you take me home?' | |
| 'It's not that. I hear it when we're walkin' along, but when we stop I don't hear it.' | |
| 'Hey, Boo.' | |
| 'Yes, suh. I felt right sorry for her, she seemed to try more'n the rest of 'em--' | |
| 'I forgot my shoes, they're back behind the stage.' | |
| '...there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller.... That institution, gentlemen, is a court.' | |
| 'Atticus is a gentleman, just like me!' | |
| 'Tree's dying. You plug 'em up with cement when they're sick. You ought to know that, Jem.' | |
| 'I wish Bob Ewell wouldn't chew tobacco.' | |
| 'When I went back, they were folded across the fence... like they were expectin' me.' | |
| 'H-ey, Atticus!' | |
| 'Low-down skunk with enough liquor in him to make him brave enough to kill children. He'd never have met you face to face.' | |
| 'I wanted you to see what real courage is.... It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.' | |
| 'So he come in the yard an' I went in the house to get him the nickel and I turned around an 'fore I knew it he was on me.' | |
| 'For God's sake, Mr. Finch, look where he is! Miss and you'll go straight into the Radley house! I can't shoot that well and you know it!' | |
| '...and just as I got to the fence I heard Mayella screamin' like a stuck hog inside the house--' | |
| 'Jean Louise, there is no doubt in my mind that they're good folks. But they're not our kind of folks.' | |
| 'Jeremy Finch, I told you you'd live to regret tearing up my camellias. You regret it now, don't you?' | |
| '...I could hear it myself, then. Footsteps, I mean. They walked when we walked and stopped when we stopped.' | |
| '...if you fine fancy gentlemen don't wanta do nothin' about it then you're all yellow stinkin' cowards...' | |
| 'Reason I can't pass first grade, Mr. Finch, is I've had to stay out ever' spring an' help Papa with the choppin', but there's another'n at the house now that's field size.' | |
| | Quote | Character |
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| 'I'm sorry, brother.' | |
| 'Your father's right. Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy.... That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' | |
| 'Well, she was beaten around the head. There was already bruises comin' on her arms, and it happened about thirty minutes before--' | |
| 'Ain't no snot-nosed slut of a schoolteacher ever born c'n make me do nothin! You ain't makin' me go nowhere, missus.' | |
| 'I hope and pray I can get Jem and Scout through it without bitterness, and most of all, without catching Maycomb's usual disease.' | |
| 'Run, Scout! Run! Run!' | |
| 'Naw, Jem, I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.' | |
| 'Scout, try not to antagonize Aunty, hear?' | |
| 'Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.' | |
| 'I'm simply defending a Negro -- his name's Tom Robinson.' | |
| 'You know what we want. Get aside from the door, Mr. Finch.' | |
| 'I picks for Mr. Link Deas.' | |
| 'Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It's best to begin reading with a fresh mind.' | |
| 'I go to school with Walter. He's your boy, ain't he? Ain't he, sir?' | |
| 'Now hear me, Bob Ewell: if I hear one more peep outa my girl Helen about not bein' able to walk this road I'll have you in jail before sundown!' | |
| 'Mr. Finch, don't tell Aunt Rachel, don't make me go back, please sir! I'll run off again--!' | |
| '...come to a decision, and restore this defendant to his family. In the name of God, do your duty.' | |
| 'No suh, she-- she hugged me. She hugged me round the waist.' | |
| 'Thank you for my children, Arthur.' | |
| 'Anything fit to say at the table's fit to say in front of Calpurnia. She knows what she means to this family.' | |
| 'Then you were mighty polite to do all that chopping and hauling for her, weren't you, boy?' | |
| 'Suppose you and Scout talked colored-folks' talk at home it'd be out of place, wouldn't it? Now what if I talked white-folks' talk at church, and with my neighbors?' | |
| 'Bob Ewell's lyin' on the ground under that tree down yonder with a kitchen knife stuck up under his ribs.' | |
| 'Grandma, she's got me in here and she won't let me out!' | |
| 'I'm Charles Baker Harris. I can read.' | |
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