Quote #22

My father was often angry when I was most like him.

More from Lillian Hellman

  1. It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
  2. Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
  3. It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
  4. Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
  5. It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
  6. People change and forget to tell each other.
  7. It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
  8. Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

All Lillian Hellman quotes