Quote #26

Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.

More from Katharine Hepburn

  1. My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
  2. Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their t…
  3. Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
  4. Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
  5. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
  6. Barbara Walters: So, Kate, do you even own a skirt? Katharine Hepburn: I own one, Barbara. I shall wear it to your funeral.
  7. Living wasn't easy for you, was it? You couldn't enter your own life, but you could be someone else. You weren't you then; you were safe.
  8. Someone asked someone who was about my age: 'How are you?' The answer was, 'Fine. If you don't ask for details.'

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