Quotes by Hellman, Lillian

You lose your manners when you're poor. >>

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injust >>

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to wri >>

Quotations about Intelligence and Intellectuals

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about. >>

It is little that one gains by cleverness. >>

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it ser >>

Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.

Hellman, Lillian