ATTICUS in Classic Quotes

1  "Give me those scissors," Atticus said.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4

2  "You can't do that, Scout," Atticus said.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3

3  With a push, Atticus started us toward the Radley front gate.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 8

4  "Let that be the least of your worries, Walter," Atticus said.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

5  Not in money," Atticus said, "but before the year's out I'll have been paid.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

6  I once asked Atticus if it ever had any; Atticus said yes, but before I was born.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

7  Miss Maudie had known Uncle Jack Finch, Atticus's brother, since they were children.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5

8  In a group of neighbors, Atticus was standing with his hands in his overcoat pockets.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 8

9  She was a Graham from Montgomery; Atticus met her when he was first elected to the state legislature.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

10  "We'll consider it sealed without the usual formality," Atticus said, when he saw me preparing to spit.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3

11  That spring when we found a crokersack full of turnip greens, Atticus said Mr. Cunningham had more than paid him.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

12  "Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win," Atticus said.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9

13  During his first five years in Maycomb, Atticus practiced economy more than anything; for several years thereafter he invested his earnings in his brother's education.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

14  Gracious child, I was raveling a thread, wasn't even thinking about your father, but now that I am I'll say this: Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5

15  He liked Maycomb, he was Maycomb County born and bred; he knew his people, they knew him, and because of Simon Finch's industry, Atticus was related by blood or marriage to nearly every family in the town.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

16  John Hale Finch was ten years younger than my father, and chose to study medicine at a time when cotton was not worth growing; but after getting Uncle Jack started, Atticus derived a reasonable income from the law.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

17  Simon would have regarded with impotent fury the disturbance between the North and the South, as it left his descendants stripped of everything but their land, yet the tradition of living on the land remained unbroken until well into the twentieth century, when my father, Atticus Finch, went to Montgomery to read law, and his younger brother went to Boston to study medicine.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1