Lillian Hellman Quotes

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.

Fear comes with middle age.

the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.

Success isn’t everything but it makes a man stand straight.

Haven’t you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody’s fault?

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.

God forgives those who invent what they need.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

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.

You can always spot clothes made in a good place.

Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman’s dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter ‘repented’, changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.