Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
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
Lived
Anybody
Ever
Nothing
Fault
Enough
Faults
Long
Havens
South
Haven
More quotes by Lillian Hellman
But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
Lillian Hellman
Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
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
Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
Lillian Hellman
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
But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.
Lillian Hellman
Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Lillian Hellman
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
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
It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.
Lillian Hellman
God forgives those who invent what they need.
Lillian Hellman
Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
Lillian Hellman
Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.
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
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
Lillian Hellman
Everybody's got a habit.
Lillian Hellman
some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
Lillian Hellman
Fashions in sin change.
Lillian Hellman
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
Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
Lillian Hellman
