It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

- Lillian Hellman

People change and forget to tell each other.

- Lillian Hellman

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

- Lillian Hellman

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

- Lillian Hellman

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

- Lillian Hellman

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

- Lillian Hellman

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

- Lillian Hellman

God forgives those who invent what they need.

- Lillian Hellman

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.

- Lillian Hellman

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

- Lillian Hellman