155 Quotes by Lillian Hellman

How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I’ve always thought.

You can’t recover from what you do not understand.

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

The happy problem of our time – longer life.

You lose your manners when you’re poor.

Like all former thinkers, I’m writing a book.

Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it’s a stinking way to create.

Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which wouldn’t disturb it.

Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don’t get it. Wanting some other way to live is proof enough of deserving it. Having it is hard work, but not having it is sheer hell.