Lillian Hellman

Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want.

— Lillian Hellman

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

— Lillian Hellman

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion.

— Lillian Hellman

You don't always know how to do things when they're happening.

— Lillian Hellman

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

It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.

— Lillian Hellman

Fear comes with middle age.

— Lillian Hellman

Callous greed grows pious very fast.

— Lillian Hellman

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

— Lillian Hellman

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

— Lillian Hellman

God forgives those who invent what they need.

— Lillian Hellman

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

— Lillian Hellman

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

— Lillian Hellman

Freedom costs you a great deal.

— Lillian Hellman

Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.

— Lillian Hellman

People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.

— Lillian Hellman

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

— Lillian Hellman

The happy problem of our time - longer life.

— Lillian Hellman

Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.

— Lillian Hellman

“Old paint on a canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see…

— Lillian Hellman

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

— Lillian Hellman

My father was often angry when I was most like him.

— Lillian Hellman

People change and forget to tell each other.

— Lillian Hellman

If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly,…

— Lillian Hellman

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

— Lillian Hellman