Lillian Hellman – 8 Quotes

8 Quotes by Lillian Hellman

People change and forget to tell each other.

– 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 have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.

– Lillian Hellman

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

– Lillian Hellman

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

– Lillian Hellman

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

– Lillian Hellman

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

– 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

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

– Lillian Hellman