Quote

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

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
Cutting
Fashion
Year
Fashions
Peace
Censorship
Cannot
Memorable
Years
Fit
Integrity
Conscience

More quotes by Lillian Hellman

Image
People change and forget to tell each other.
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
Image
The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
Lillian Hellman
Image
It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
Lillian Hellman
Image
as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Writers talk too much.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Fashions in sin change.
Lillian Hellman
Image
We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.
Lillian Hellman
Image
I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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
A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
Lillian Hellman
Image
Styles in wit change so.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
Lillian Hellman
Image
You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
Lillian Hellman