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

I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.

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.

Never, never, never on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby food. Do it, and you'll often get an answer you don't want.

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.

There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.

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.