"You lose your manners when you are poor." — Lillian Hellman
"You lose your manners when you are poor."
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Lillian Hellman
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65 Quotes by Lillian Hellman
Lillian Hellman has 65 quotes on this site.
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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.
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For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
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My father was often angry when I was most like him.
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Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
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The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it…
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Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became…
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Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.
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The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to…
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Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.…
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Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to…
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Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.
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I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now.
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People…
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
— Karen Armstrong
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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
— Karen Armstrong
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They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this…
— Chinua Achebe
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which…
— Teresa of Avila
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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always…
— Roger Babson
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose…
— Peter Ackroyd
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One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access…
— Michelle Bachelet
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I want to state unequivocally for the world, as well as for the markets, as well as for the American…
— Michele Bachmann
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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to…
— Francis Bacon
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
— James A. Baldwin
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