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

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

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
Lillian Hellman

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

You lose your manners when you are poor.
Lillian Hellman