Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout.
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.
You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
He turned out the light and went into Jem’s room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.
There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you’re working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn’t dream of interrupting on the golf course.
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father’s passin’.
This time we aren’t fighting the Yankees, we’re fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they’re still our friends and this is still our home.
She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?
Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.
Southern lawyers don’t read novels much.
Nothing is more deadly than a deserted, waiting street.
I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system – that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.