Author: Lillian Hellman

Quotes

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

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

- Lillian Hellman

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

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

- Lillian Hellman

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

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

- Lillian Hellman

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

- Lillian Hellman

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

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

- Lillian Hellman

God forgives those who invent what they need.

God forgives those who invent what they need.

- Lillian Hellman

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

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

- Lillian Hellman

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

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

- Lillian Hellman

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

- Lillian Hellman

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