BEST in Classic Quotes

1  "That was the best yet," I said.

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

2  She made the best cakes in the neighborhood.

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

3  It's best to begin reading with a fresh mind.

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

4  When stalking one's prey, it is best to take one's time.

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

5  With my best company manners, I asked her if she would have some.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 24

6  We decided that it would be best for you to have some feminine influence.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 13

7  What I meant was, if Atticus Finch drank until he was drunk he wouldn't be as hard as some men are at their best.

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

8  She said Atticus tried to explain things to him, and that he must do his best not to lose hope because Atticus was doing his best to get him free.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 24

9  He walked to the corner of the lot, then back again, studying the simple terrain as if deciding how best to effect an entry, frowning and scratching his head.

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

10  Local opinion held Mr. Underwood to be an intense, profane little man, whose father in a fey fit of humor christened Braxton Bragg, a name Mr. Underwood had done his best to live down.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 16

11  The other boys attended the industrial school and received the best secondary education to be had in the state; one of them eventually worked his way through engineering school at Auburn.

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

12  The Levy family met all criteria for being Fine Folks: they did the best they could with the sense they had, and they had been living on the same plot of ground in Maycomb for five generations.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 15

13  I was fairly sure Boo Radley was inside that house, but I couldn't prove it, and felt it best to keep my mouth shut or I would be accused of believing in Hot Steams, phenomena I was immune to in the daytime.

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

14  He thought Jem and I would never go to bed; he had considered emerging and helping me beat Jem, as Jem had grown far taller, but he knew Mr. Finch would break it up soon, so he thought it best to stay where he was.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 14

15  Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.

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

16  Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 13

17  He said he was trying to get Miss Maudie's goat, that he had been trying unsuccessfully for forty years, that he was the last person in the world Miss Maudie would think about marrying but the first person she thought about teasing, and the best defense to her was spirited offense, all of which we understood clearly.

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