Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Callous greed grows pious very fast.
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
Callous
Pious
Greed
Fast
Grows
More quotes by 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
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
Lillian Hellman
Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.
Lillian Hellman
It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
Lillian Hellman
the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.
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
Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.
Lillian Hellman
Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
Lillian Hellman
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
Lillian Hellman
some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
Lillian Hellman
You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.
Lillian Hellman
Everybody's got a habit.
Lillian Hellman
But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.
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
The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
Lillian Hellman
Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.
Lillian Hellman
The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.
Lillian Hellman
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman
as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.
Lillian Hellman
You can always spot clothes made in a good place.
Lillian Hellman
