Lillian Hellman Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.”

“Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.”

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

“Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.”

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

“There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.”

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

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

“What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.”

“Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.”