Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
Lillian Hellman
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Fight
Fighting
Doesn
Wells
Well
Believe
Activism
Pay
More quotes by Lillian Hellman
The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
Lillian Hellman
Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
Lillian Hellman
You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
Lillian Hellman
Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
Lillian Hellman
The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.
Lillian Hellman
Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Lillian Hellman
the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
Lillian Hellman
Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
Lillian Hellman
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
some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
Lillian Hellman
Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
Lillian Hellman
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
Lillian Hellman
Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.
Lillian Hellman
If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
Lillian Hellman
Everybody's got a habit.
Lillian Hellman
Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
Lillian Hellman
Styles in wit change so.
Lillian Hellman
No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
Lillian Hellman
You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
Lillian Hellman
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman
