Quotes About Mayella Ewell

#1. But in the secret's courts of man's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.

Harper Lee

#2. Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world. She was even lonelier than Boo Radley, who had not been out of the house in twenty-five years.

Harper Lee

#3. The man had to have some kind of comeback, his kind always does. So if spitting in my face and threatening me saved Mayella Ewell one extra beating, that's something I'll gladly take. He had to take it out on somebody and I'd rather it be me than that houseful of children out there.

Harper Lee

#4. Chemistry, in its application to animals and vegetables. Endeavours jointly with physiology to enlighten us respecting the mysterious processes and sources of organic life.

Justus Von Liebig

#5. Because everyone knows, when it comes to love, it's not the fall that hurts ... it's the landing.

Rachel Van Dyken

#6. We are safer if there are not nuclear arsenals around the planet that can be utilized, stolen, sold to terrorists and others who would do harm.

Susan Rice

#7. Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Hunter S. Thompson

#8. I wanted this wedding like a bad case of gonorrhea.

L.J. Shen

#9. It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.

Marcel Proust