155 Quotes by Lillian Hellman

People change and forget to tell each other.

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

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now.

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

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

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.