155 Quotes by Lillian Hellman

Everybody's got a habit.

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

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

If someone had told me, don't say anything about Lillian Hellman because she'll sue you, it wouldn't have stopped me. It might have spurred me on.

But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.

It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.

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

We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.

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