It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct,… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
I've always had great satisfaction out of writing the plays. I've not always had great satisfaction out of seeing them produced-although often… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Most people coming out of war feel lost and resentful. What had been a minute-to-minute confrontation with yourself, your struggle with what… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them? — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for… — LILLIAN HELLMAN Copy Share Image
There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault? — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
