6 Lillian Hellman Quotes on Truth

Lillian Hellman quotes on truth

2. Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

7. A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.

8. We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.

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

30. Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

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