BUSINESS in Classic Quotes

1  "None of your business," he said.

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

2  What Mr. Radley did was his own business.

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

3  Calpurnia set a pitcher and three glasses on the porch, then went about her business.

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

4  Besides, Mr. Ewell was Mr. Gilmer's witness, and he had no business being rude to him of all people.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17

5  We've done business in this court for years and years, and Mr. Finch is always courteous to everybody.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 18

6  Aunt Alexandra had got it backwards: the business part of the meeting was blood-curdling, the social hour was dreary.

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

7  If Uncle Atticus lets you run around with stray dogs, that's his own business, like Grandma says, so it ain't your fault.

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

8  Attentive critics of courthouse business, Atticus said they knew as much law as the Chief Justice, from long years of observation.

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

9  If he were her double first cousin once removed he would still not be received in this house unless he comes to see Atticus on business.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 23

10  Aunt Alexandra told me to join them for refreshments; it was not necessary that I attend the business part of the meeting, she said it'd bore me.

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

11  He wore an ordinary business suit, which made him look somehow like every other man: gone were his high boots, lumber jacket, and bullet-studded belt.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17

12  For some reason, my first year of school had wrought a great change in our relationship: Calpurnia's tyranny, unfairness, and meddling in my business had faded to gentle grumblings of general disapproval.

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

13  Sinkfield, no patriot, served and supplied ammunition to Indians and settlers alike, neither knowing or caring whether he was a part of the Alabama Territory or the Creek Nation so long as business was good.

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

14  She hurt my feelings and set my teeth permanently on edge, but when I asked Atticus about it, he said there were already enough sunbeams in the family and to go on about my business, he didn't mind me much the way I was.

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

15  As far back as I could remember, there was always a Chevrolet in excellent condition in the carhouse, and Atticus put many miles on it in business trips, but in Maycomb he walked to and from his office four times a day, covering about two miles.

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

16  Once, when Aunty assured us that Miss Stephanie Crawford's tendency to mind other people's business was hereditary, Atticus said, "Sister, when you stop to think about it, our generation's practically the first in the Finch family not to marry its cousins."

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

17  When we were small, Jem and I confined our activities to the southern neighborhood, but when I was well into the second grade at school and tormenting Boo Radley became passe, the business section of Maycomb drew us frequently up the street past the real property of Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 11