Atticus Finch is a fictional character in Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird. Profoundly inspirational Atticus Finch quotes will make you look at life differently and help you live a meaningful life.
Famous Atticus Finch Quotes
Scout, simply by the nature of the work, every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally This one’s mine, I guess You might hear some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you will you just hold your head high and keep those fists down Chapter nine
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view until you climb into his skin and walk around in it Atticus Finch
Don’t pay any attention to her, just hold your head high and be a gentleman Chapter nine
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read One does not love breathing Scout Finch
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
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 It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what Atticus Finch
So it took an eight year old child to bring em to their senses That proves something that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they’re still human Hm, maybe we need a police force of children
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 Jem 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 quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles em Atticus Finch
No matter what anybody says to you, don’t you let ’em get your goat Chapter nine
There are just some kind of men who who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results Miss Maudie
Scout: Atticus, he was real nice Atticus Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them
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
Sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down well, all I can say is, when you and Jem are grown, maybe you’ll look back on this with some compassion and some feeling that I didn’t let you down
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 Scout Finch
Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him
You might hear some ugly talk about it at school, but do one thing for me if you will 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 fighting with your head for a change Atticus Finch
I suggested that one could be a ray of sunshine in pants just as well when I asked Atticus about it, he said there were already enough sunbeams in the family and to go on about my business, he didn’t mind me much the way I was
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents Miss Maudie
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 quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles em
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win 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
If there’s just one kind of folks, why can’t they get along with each other? If they’re all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I’m beginning to understand something I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time it’s because he wants to stay inside Jem Finch
You children last night made Walter Cunningham stand in my shoes for a minute That was enough
They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions but 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 Atticus Finch
Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I’d have the facts Scout, chapter Seven
Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop somehow it was hotter then bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square Harper Lee
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
He turned out the light and went into Jem’s room He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning Scout Finch
First of all, if you learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks Chapter three
This time we aren’t fighting the Yankees, we’re fighting our friends But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they’re still our friends, and this is still our home Atticus Finch
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow
Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about? Atticus Finch
You’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash
People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for Judge Taylor
It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you
By then he did not have to tell me Just as the birds know where to go when it rains, I know when there is trouble in our street Scout Finch
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience
