155 Quotes by Lillian Hellman

Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become.

The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.

You can always spot clothes made in a good place.

Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?

some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.

A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own.

You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.

Callous greed grows pious very fast.

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