Harper Lee citáty

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„… Než budu moci žít s ostatními lidmi, musím žít se sebou.“

„Statečnost začíná tehdy, když víš, že jsi poražen, ještě než se do něčeho dáš, a přesto se do toho dáš a dovedeš to až do konce, ať se děje co děje.“

„Zabijte všechny modré sojky, které chcete, pokud je dokážete zasáhnout, ale pamatujte, že zabít slavíka je hřích.“

„Jsem Charles Baker Harris ... umím číst.“

„S ním byl život rutinou; bez něj byl život nesnesitelný.“

„Mount Everest: během mého raného života byla chladná a byla tam.“

“Things are always better in the morning.”

“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.”

“I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system — that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.”

“A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.”

“The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.”

“Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.”

“It's not time to worry yet”

“Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.”

“Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.”

“They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.”

“Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.”

“Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself… It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.”

“As a reader I loathe introductions… Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.”

“That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?”

“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.”

“There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.”

“Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscious.”

“She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.”

“Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it, hotheadedness isn't.”

“Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.”

“I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?”

“The way you tell it, it is.”

“Try fighting with your head for a change…
it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.”

“[T]he time your friends need you is when they’re wrong, Jean Louise. They don’t need you when they’re right”

“I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?'

I said not particularly.”

“As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.”

“I'm little but I'm old.”

“As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he’ll look for his lessons.”

“Remember this also: it’s always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are. If you can master that trick, you’ll get along.”

“A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.”

“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.”