All Ben Hecht Quotes
- Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety. Clambers
- A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is… Always Loves
- He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass. Ant
- Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. All
- I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms… Alms
- People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized. Criticized
- Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world… Bartender
- In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace. Deceit
- Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it… Admired
- Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos. Bravo
- For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of… Double
- In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. Actively
- The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links. Cuff
- Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than… Age
- A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. Any
- The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people. American
- Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was… Always Striking
- The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual… American
- Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's… Acclaimed
- I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony. Agony
- The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both. Art
- I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain. Brain
- In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym… Adventure
- When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving.… Activities
- Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. Complicated Relationship