Lillian Hellman

I will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

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

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

Decisions particularly important ones have always made me sleepy perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

If you are willing to take the punishment you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial the battle ugly is another point.

People change and forget to tell each other.

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

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. (Softly) Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it.

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