Cecil Jacobs is a big wet hen!

Things are never as bad as they seem.

I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature.

It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike -- in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do.

Walter looked as if he had been raised on fish food: his eyes, as blue as Dill Harris's, were red-rimmed and watery.

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.

Turtles don't feel, stupid, said Jem. Were you ever a turtle, huh?

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

Maybe he doesn't have anywhere to run off to.

Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.

A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them.

As Kipling said, that's another story.

Atticus, he was real nice. Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for, and they have a right to subject their children to it.

Scout- .. Uncle Jack?

Uncle Jack- Ma'am?

Scout- What's a whore-lady?

In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama.