Lillian Hellman Quotes - 9quotes.com

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Written by Lillian Hellman
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion.
Written by Lillian Hellman
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
Written by Lillian Hellman
People change and forget to tell each other.
Written by Lillian Hellman
Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.
Written by Lillian Hellman
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
Written by Lillian Hellman
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
Written by Lillian Hellman
If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.
Written by Lillian Hellman
Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Written by Lillian Hellman
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Written by Lillian Hellman
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
Written by Lillian Hellman
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
Written by Lillian Hellman
My father was often angry when I was most like him.
Written by Lillian Hellman
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Written by Lillian Hellman
It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
Written by Lillian Hellman
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
Written by Lillian Hellman
Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
Written by Lillian Hellman
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
Written by Lillian Hellman
They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Written by Lillian Hellman
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
Written by Lillian Hellman
God forgives those who invent what they need.
Written by Lillian Hellman
You lose your manners when you are poor.
Written by Lillian Hellman
Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.
Written by Lillian Hellman
Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.
Written by Lillian Hellman
It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
Written by Lillian Hellman
There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.
Written by Lillian Hellman

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