29 Quotations by Lillian Hellman
- 1. Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

- 2. Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth.

- 3. Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I wi ...

- 4. For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

- 5. I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.'

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

- 7. Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they wer ...

- 8. It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

- 9. It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

- 10. It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a mi ...

- 11. It it not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a mi ...

- 12. It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a ...

- 13. It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip ...

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

- 15. No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.

- 16. Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

- 17. Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

- 18. Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

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

- 20. Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

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