Lillian Hellman Famous Quotes
"We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them."
People change and forget to tell eachother.
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
"If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves."
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
"Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped."
Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
"Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did."
Lillian Hellman Quotations
Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
Samuel Butler
There is no place in nature for extinction.
Licretius
Regrets are idle yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
Charles Dudley Warner
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one- as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame. (Maxims)
La Rochefoucauld
"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."
Willie Nelson
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw
Peace visits not the guilty mind.
Juvenal
"We are all instantly forgiven but in order to benefit from this forgiveness, we must in turn forgive others and ourselves."
Unknown
Eric Draven It's not a good day to be a bad guy.
Crow The
"Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I am beautiful because you love me"
Oscar Hammerstein II