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

More quotes by Lillian Hellman

Image
My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
Lillian Hellman
Image
God forgives those who invent what they need.
Lillian Hellman
Image
The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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
The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
Lillian Hellman
Image
You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
Lillian Hellman
Image
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
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
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
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Everybody's got a habit.
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
People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman