Quotes by : Lillian Hellman

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

It is best to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it.

People change and forget to tell each other.

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

Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts.....

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

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

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

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