Harper Lee Quotes
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."
- Harper Lee
"Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf."
- Harper Lee
(Related: Home, People, Dream, Coffee, Golf, Nothing, Right, Walking)
"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
- Harper Lee
(Related: Love)
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
- Harper Lee
(Related: Conscience, Majority)
"The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that."
- Harper Lee
(Related: Bible, World)
"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."
- Harper Lee
(Related: Courage)
"Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it."
- Harper Lee
(Related: Advice, Profit)
"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks."
- Harper Lee
"You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here."
- Harper Lee
(Related: Books)
"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
- Harper Lee
(Related: Conscience, Majority)
"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."
- Harper Lee
(Related: Father, Thought, Man)