Quote

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?

Harper Lee

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
Musician
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Monroeville
Alabama
Nelle Harper Lee
Empathy
Tonight
Total
Stranger
Whose
Circumstances
Proud
Nothing
Insulted

More quotes by Harper Lee

Image
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. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.
Harper Lee
Image
I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.
Harper Lee
Image
Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.
Harper Lee
Image
That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?
Harper Lee
Image
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.
Harper Lee
Image
Things are never as bad as they seem.
Harper Lee
Image
Dill? Mm? Why do you reckon Boo Radleys never run off? Dill sighed a long sigh and turned away from me. Maybe he doesn't have anywhere to run off to
Harper Lee
Image
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.
Harper Lee
Image
You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.
Harper Lee
Image
They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.
Harper Lee
Image
But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
Harper Lee
Image
Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
Harper Lee
Image
Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
Harper Lee
Image
My book had a universal theme. It's not a racial novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.
Harper Lee
Image
Don't you study about other folks's business till you take care of your own.
Harper Lee
Image
Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.
Harper Lee
Image
When you're at the top, there's only one way to go.
Harper Lee
Image
Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there, nothing can put it there.
Harper Lee
Image
The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -
Harper Lee
Image
Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.
Harper Lee