One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

See there?" Jem was scowling triumphantly. "Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin

Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back.

It's better to be silent than to be a fool.

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

Next morning I awoke, looked out the window and nearly died of fright. My screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half-shaven. "The world's endin', Atticus! Please do something -!" I dragged him to the window and pointed. "No it's not," he said. "It's snowing.

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.