Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in. — Atticus Finch

Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts. — Atticus Finch

Jen and I were accustomed to our father’s last–will–and–testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding. — Atticus Finch

Atticus says you can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t. — Atticus Finch

I think I’ll be a clown when I get grown…. There ain’t one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I’m gonna join the circus and laugh my head off. — Harper Lee

Don’t pay any attention to her, just hold your head high and be a gentleman. — Atticus Finch

Try fighting with your head for a change…it’s a good one, even if it does resist learning. — Atticus Finch

You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don’t you let ’em get your goat. Try fightin’ with your head for a change.–Atticus Finch — Harper Lee

How could they do it, how could they?’ ‘I don’t know, but they did it. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it–seems that only children weep. — Atticus Finch

You children made Walter Cunningham stand in my shoes for a minute. That was enough. — Atticus Finch

Atticus has instilled in his children his strong sense of morality and justice. He is one of the few residents of Maycomb committed to racial equality. — Atticus Finch

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it. — Atticus Finch

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em. — Harper Lee

Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open. — Atticus Finch

Our courts have their faults as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal. — Atticus Finch

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

She was everything real in a world of make–believe. — Atticus Poetry

There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible. — Harper Lee

I despise you and everything you stand for. — Atticus Finch

He’s the same in the court–room as he is on the public streets. — Atticus Finch