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

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.

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

For the life of me, I did not understand how he[Atticus] could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic.

Nothin’s real scary except in books.