| “Thank you for my children, Arthur.” | Atticus Finch |
| “Secretly, miss Finch, 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.” | Dolphus Raymond |
| “Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” | Atticus Finch |
| “well, it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?” | Scout Finch |
| “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view–until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” | Atticus Finch |
| “…there’s just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to ’em. Even then, they ain’t worth the bullet it takes to shoot ’em.” | Heck Tate |
| “Hey, Boo.” | Scout Finch |
| “Cry about the simple hell people give other people–without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they’re people, too.” | Dolphus Raymond |
| “I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time…it’s because he wants to stay inside.” | Jem Finch |
| “I may not be much, Mr. Finch, but I’m still sheriff of Maycomb County and Bob Ewell fell on his knife.” | Heck Tate |
| “The way that man called him ‘boy’ all the time and sneered at him…Hasn’t anybody got any business talkin’ like that–it just makes me sick.” | Dill Harris |
| “As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something, and don’t you forget it–whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.” | Atticus Finch |
| “I tell you there are some good but misguided people in this town…Folks in this town who think they’re doing right, I mean.” | Mrs. Merriweather |
| “There ain’t one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I’m gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.” | Dill Harris |
| “I don’t know, but they did it. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it–seems that only children weep.” | Atticus Finch |
| “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy.” | Miss Maudie |
| “Whether Maycomb knows it or not, we’re paying the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.” | Miss Maudie |
| “Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing and it made me sad.” | Scout Finch |
| “Let the dead bury the dead.” | Heck Tate |
| “In the name of God, do your duty. In the name of God, believe Tom Robinson.” | Atticus Finch |
| “I felt sorry for her, she seemed to try more ‘n the rest of ’em.” | Tom Robinson |
| “Miss Jean Louise, stand up; you’re father’s passin’.” | Reverend Sykes |
| “He took advantage of me. An’ if you fine, fancy gentlemen ain’t gonna do nothin’ about it, then you’re just a bunch of lousy, yella, stinkin’ cowards…’ | Mayella Ewell |
To Kill A Mockingbird quote identification
January 25, 2020