Writer Quotes by Lillian Hellman

failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

— 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

A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.

— Lillian Hellman

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

— Lillian Hellman

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

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

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

— Lillian Hellman

Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.

— Lillian Hellman

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

— 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…

— Lillian Hellman

It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.

— 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…

— Lillian Hellman

Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.

— Lillian Hellman

You lose your manners when you're poor.

— Lillian Hellman

Fashions in sin change.

— Lillian Hellman