Lillian Hellman Quotes

American - Dramatist June 20, 1905 - June 30, 1984

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

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.

Lillian Hellman

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

Lillian Hellman

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

Lillian Hellman

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Lillian Hellman

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

Lillian Hellman

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

Lillian Hellman