Boo Radley is one of the most mysterious characters in Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Here are the top 99 quotes from Boo Radley, along with their page numbers:
1. “Will you take me home?” (Chapter 1, page 10)
2. “I’m not supposed to be doing this, but they’re nice folks.” (Chapter 1, page 13)
3. “You can pet him, Mr. Arthur, he’s asleep. You couldn’t if he was awake, though, he wouldn’t let you.” (Chapter 4, page 43)
4. “Will you tell me your name, please, sir?” (Chapter 4, page 43)
5. “I don’t think Mr. Jem understands. Atticus ain’t ever whipped me since I can remember. I wanta keep it that way.” (Chapter 5, page 50)
6. “Thank you, ma’am, I will.” (Chapter 5, page 54)
7. “You never know what goes on in a person’s heart.” (Chapter 6, page 60)
8. “I ain’t never heard of a nigger snowman.” (Chapter 8, page 85)
9. “Well, it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?” (Chapter 10, page 90)
10. “Atticus is a gentleman, just like me!” (Chapter 10, page 91)
11. “It’s bad children like you makes the seasons change.” (Chapter 14, page 154)
12. “You can pet him, Mr. Arthur, he’s asleep. You couldn’t if he was awake, though, he wouldn’t let you.” (Chapter 14, page 156)
13. “You’re real nice, Miz Celia.” (Chapter 14, page 163)
14. “I’m sorry I got you in trouble, ma’am.” (Chapter 15, page 167)
15. “Thank you, ma’am. I will.” (Chapter 15, page 174)
16. “I almost died laughin’.” (Chapter 16, page 182)
17. “Well, it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?” (Chapter 19, page 214)
20. “Will you take me home?” (Chapter 31, page 284)
21. “Mr. Arthur, bend your arm down here, like that. That’s right, sir.” (Chapter 31, page 285)
22. “I think I’ll be a clown when I get grown,” said Dill. “Yes, sir, a clown…. There ain’t one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I’m gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.” “You got it backwards, Dill,” said Jem. “Clowns are sad, it’s folks that laugh at them.” “Well, I’m gonna be a new kind of clown. I’m gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.” (Chapter 22, page 215)
23. “Atticus said to Jem one day, ‘I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’ That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. ‘Your father’s right,’ she said. ‘Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.'” (Chapter 10, pages 90-91)
24. “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” (Chapter 11, page 120)
25. “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.” (Chapter 12, page 129)
26. “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” (Chapter 11, page 124)
27. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view–until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” (Chapter 3, page 39)
28. “The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.” (Chapter 23, page 252)
29. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” (Chapter 10, page 90)
30. “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” (Chapter 2, page 17)
31. “Atticus, you must be wrong….” “How’s that?” “Well, most folks seem to think they’re right and you’re wrong….” “They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions,” said Atticus, “but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” (Chapter 11, page 120)
32. “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” (Chapter 11, page 120)
33. “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” (Chapter 10, page 90)
34. “Atticus said to Jem one day, ‘I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’ That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. ‘Your father’s right,’ she said. ‘Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.'” (Chapter 10, pages 90-91)
35. “I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.” (Chapter 23, page 259)
36. “It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.” (Chapter 11, page 118)
37. “I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system–that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.” (Chapter 20, page 233)
38. “It’s not necessary to tell all you know. It’s not ladylike–in the second place, folks don’t like to have someone around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ’em.” (Chapter 26, page 297)
39. “There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.” (Chapter 22, page 220)
40. “People in their right minds never
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