Lillian Hellman People Quotations

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

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

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their finest hour.

People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.

I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.

Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.

Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.

Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?

some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.

You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.

Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?