Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
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
Oneself
Older
Relationship
Realizing
Grows
Littles
Little
Even
Realizes
More quotes by Lillian Hellman
You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
Lillian Hellman
The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
Lillian Hellman
I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.
Lillian Hellman
The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
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
I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
Lillian Hellman
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
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
Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
Lillian Hellman
Fashions in sin change.
Lillian Hellman
But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
Lillian Hellman
Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
Lillian Hellman
Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn't disturb it.
Lillian Hellman
Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
Lillian Hellman
A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
Lillian Hellman
Fear comes with middle age.
Lillian Hellman
Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
Lillian Hellman
Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Lillian Hellman
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
No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
Lillian Hellman
