I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.

- Lillian Hellman

Styles in wit change so.

- Lillian Hellman

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

- Lillian Hellman

You do too much. Go and do nothing for a while. Nothing.

- Lillian Hellman

The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.

- Lillian Hellman

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

- Lillian Hellman

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 …

- Lillian Hellman

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

- Lillian Hellman

If someone had told me, don't say anything about Lillian Hellman because she'll sue you, it wouldn't have stopped me. It might have spurred me on.

- Lillian Hellman