Quotes by : Lillian Hellman

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't....

Decisions particularly important ones have always made me sleepy perhaps because I know that I will....

I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.

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

Nothing you write if you hope to be any good will ever come out as you first hoped.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times until any success became an....

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

The past with its pleasures its rewards its foolishness its punishments is there for each of us forever....

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept....