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“Pass the damn ham, please.”

Harper Lee kniha To Kill a Mockingbird

Zdroj: To Kill a Mockingbird

“Things are always better in the morning.”

Harper Lee kniha To Kill a Mockingbird

Zdroj: To Kill a Mockingbird

“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.”

Harper Lee kniha To Kill a Mockingbird

Pt. 2, ch. 20
Atticus Finch
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Kontext: 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. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

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

Harper Lee kniha To Kill a Mockingbird

Pt. 2, ch. 20
Atticus Finch
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Kontext: 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. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. 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.”

Harper Lee kniha To Kill a Mockingbird

Pt. 2, ch. 23
Atticus Finch
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Kontext: 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. As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it — 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.

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

Harper Lee kniha To Kill a Mockingbird

Pt. 2, ch. 25
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Kontext: In the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.

“It's not time to worry yet”

Harper Lee kniha To Kill a Mockingbird

Zdroj: To Kill a Mockingbird

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

Harper Lee kniha To Kill a Mockingbird

Zdroj: To Kill a Mockingbird

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

Harper Lee kniha To Kill a Mockingbird

Varianta: 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.
Zdroj: To Kill a Mockingbird

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

Harper Lee kniha To Kill a Mockingbird

Zdroj: To Kill a Mockingbird

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

Harper Lee kniha To Kill a Mockingbird

Zdroj: To Kill a Mockingbird

“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.”

Harper Lee kniha To Kill a Mockingbird

Pt. 2, ch. 12
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
Zdroj: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

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

Harper Lee kniha To Kill a Mockingbird

Zdroj: To Kill a Mockingbird

“I'm little but I'm old.”

Harper Lee kniha To Kill a Mockingbird

Zdroj: To Kill a Mockingbird

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

Harper Lee kniha Go Set a Watchman

Zdroj: Go Set a Watchman

“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.”

Harper Lee kniha To Kill a Mockingbird

Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
Pt. 2, ch. 16
Zdroj: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)