top of page
.png){kind=small}
"If he's not he should be by now. The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Observation quotes
"The bowl is warmer than the soup."
"No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer."
"Good God. Men everywhere."
"As far as she could see, children mostly argued, shouted, ran around very fast, laughed loudly, picked their noses, got dirty and sulked."
"He reads much;He is a great observer and he looksQuite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays,As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music;Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sortAs if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spiritThat could be moved to smile at any thing.Such men as he be never at heart's easeWhiles they behold a greater than themselves,And therefore are they very dangerous."
"Society in its boundless ignorance ridicules the caterpillar but praises the butterfly."
"Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business."
"Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. If they observed this duty conscientiously, they would give us fewer pictures chequered with vivid contrasts of light and shade; they would seldom elevate their heroes and heroines to the heights of rapture - still seldomer sink them to the depths of despair; for if we rarely taste the fulness of joy in this life, we yet more rarely savour the acrid bitterness of hopeless anguish."
"I tried to bring up boyfriends and sex. Her great dark eyes surveyed me with emptiness and a kind of chagrin that reached back generations and generations in her blood from not having done what was crying to be done--whatever it was, and everybody knows what it was."
Explore more quotes by Harper Lee
"Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions."
"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box."
"I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement."
"One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them."
"We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple."
"It had never fully occurred to Jean Louise that she was a girl: her life had been one of reckless, pummeling activity; fighting, football, climbing, keeping up with Jem, and besting anyone her own age in any contest requiring physical prowess."
bottom of page