Quote #21
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.
More from Lillian Hellman
- It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
- My father was often angry when I was most like him.
- It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
- Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
- It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
- Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
- Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling class…
- People change and forget to tell each other.