I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.

I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?' I said not particularly.

I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.

She was born in the Objective case.

I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.” “I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?” “The way you tell it, it is.

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.