Quotes Lillian Hellman

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held r...

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth....

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any ...

God forgives those who invent what they need....

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's f...

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to sp...

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't lis...

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy ...

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part wit...

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little righ...

It is not good to see people who have been pretending streng...

Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other...

My father was often angry when I was most like him....

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber belie...

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come ou...

People change and forget to tell each other....

Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them fr...

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight....

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on...

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to...

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits....

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoun...

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself w...

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in ...

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried ...