Harper Lee

More from Harper Lee

• Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

  To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), Pt. 1, Ch. 10 (Atticus Finch)

  • Animals
  • Morality

• 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.

  To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), Pt. 1, Ch. 10 (Miss Maudie)

  • Animals

• Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

  To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), Pt. 1, Ch. 2 (Scout)

  • Reading

All 7 quotes from Harper Lee

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy