Quote

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.

Lillian Hellman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lillian Hellman
Age: 79 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 20
Died: 1984
Died: September 30
Actor
Author
Autobiographer
Librettist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Lillian Florence Hellman
Place
Cutting
Cannot
Comfortable
Persons
Groups
Person
Fashion
Fashions
Even
Came
Conclusion
Long
Year
Fit
Years
Though
Group
Political
Conscience

More quotes by Lillian Hellman

Image
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
Lillian Hellman
Image
A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
Lillian Hellman
Image
failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
Lillian Hellman
Image
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
Lillian Hellman
Image
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
Lillian Hellman
Image
But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
Lillian Hellman
Image
The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
Lillian Hellman
Image
We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.
Lillian Hellman
Image
It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
Lillian Hellman
Image
It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
Lillian Hellman
Image
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Lillian Hellman