A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.
--Lillian Hellman
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
--Lillian Hellman
Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.
--Lillian Hellman
For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
--Lillian Hellman
God forgives those who invent what they need.
--Lillian Hellman
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.
--Lillian Hellman
I do not believe in recovery. The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
--Lillian Hellman
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
--Lillian Hellman
I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for the night.
--Lillian Hellman
I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
--Lillian Hellman
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
--Lillian Hellman
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.
--Lillian Hellman
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
--Lillian Hellman
It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
--Lillian Hellman
It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
--Lillian Hellman
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.
--Lillian Hellman
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
--Lillian Hellman
Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
--Lillian Hellman
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
--Lillian Hellman
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
--Lillian Hellman
People change and forget to tell each other.
--Lillian Hellman
Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
--Lillian Hellman
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
--Lillian Hellman
You lose your manners when you're poor.
--Lillian Hellman
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