Quote

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.

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
Hell
Scolded
Justice
Violations
Word
Violation
Times
Unjust
Used
Final
Self
Finals
Many
Refuse
Preside
Mean
Courage
Scolding

More quotes by Lillian Hellman

Image
Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
Lillian Hellman
Image
History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
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
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Everybody's got a habit.
Lillian Hellman
Image
But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
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
the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
Lillian Hellman
Image
People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
Lillian Hellman
Image
God forgives those who invent what they need.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
Lillian Hellman
Image
My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
Lillian Hellman