COURTROOM in Classic Quotes

1  Judge Taylor was the only person in the courtroom who laughed.

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

2  The defendant is not guilty, but somebody in this courtroom is.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 20

3  It took Atticus's courtroom voice to drag us away from the tree.

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

4  Happily, we sped ahead of Reverend Sykes to the courtroom floor.

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

5  The courtroom was still, and again I wondered where the babies were.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 20

6  This time Judge Taylor's gavel came down with a bang, and as it did the overhead lights went on in the courtroom.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 19

7  The Colored balcony ran along three walls of the courtroom like a second-story veranda, and from it we could see everything.

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

8  There will be no more audibly obscene speculations on any subject from anybody in this courtroom as long as I'm sitting here.

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

9  Below us, heads turned, feet scraped the floor, babies were shifted to shoulders, and a few children scampered out of the courtroom.

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

10  I guess if she hadn't been so poor and ignorant, Judge Taylor would have put her under the jail for the contempt she had shown everybody in the courtroom.

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

11  Atticus was on his feet at the bench saying something to him, Mr. Heck Tate as first officer of the county stood in the middle aisle quelling the packed courtroom.

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

12  Atticus and Mr. Gilmer met in front of the bench and whispered, then they left the courtroom by a door behind the witness stand, which was a signal for us all to stretch.

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

13  There has been a request," Judge Taylor said, "that this courtroom be cleared of spectators, or at least of women and children, a request that will be denied for the time being.

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

14  He permitted smoking in his courtroom but did not himself indulge: sometimes, if one was lucky, one had the privilege of watching him put a long dry cigar into his mouth and munch it slowly up.

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

15  With one phrase he had turned happy picknickers into a sulky, tense, murmuring crowd, being slowly hypnotized by gavel taps lessening in intensity until the only sound in the courtroom was a dim pink-pink-pink: the judge might have been rapping the bench with a pencil.

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

16  To reach the courtroom, on the second floor, one passed sundry sunless county cubbyholes: the tax assessor, the tax collector, the county clerk, the county solicitor, the circuit clerk, the judge of probate lived in cool dim hutches that smelled of decaying record books mingled with old damp cement and stale urine.

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

17  People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for, and they have the right to subject their children to it, but I can assure you of one thing: you will receive what you see and hear in silence or you will leave this courtroom, but you won't leave it until the whole boiling of you come before me on contempt charges.

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