Quote

Everybody's got a habit.

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
Habit
Everybody

More quotes by Lillian Hellman

Image
The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
Lillian Hellman
Image
God forgives those who invent what they need.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
Lillian Hellman
Image
It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
Lillian Hellman
Image
failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
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
Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
Lillian Hellman
Image
The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
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
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
Image
Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
Lillian Hellman
Image
You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.
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
Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
Lillian Hellman
Image
I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
Lillian Hellman
Image
Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
Lillian Hellman
Image
some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
Lillian Hellman