Top 100 Lillian Quotes
#2. Whatever else we may say about sex, it is at least as much a social and psychological phenomenon as it is a biological one.
Lillian B. Rubin
#3. 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.
Lillian Hellman
#4. Lillian shut her eyes briefly, as if she hoped when she opened them she would behold a world in which people never said ridiculous things.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#5. For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.
Lillian B. Rubin
#6. Children crawl before they walk, walk before they run
each generally a precondition for the other. And with each step they take toward more independence, more mastery of the environment, their mothers take a step away
each a small separation, a small distancing.
Lillian B. Rubin
#7. Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.
Lillian Hellman
#8. They are trying to hold on to a world that no longer exists. They are blind and terrified because they feel it slipping away from them. They are gripping thin air but they keep trying desperately to hold on to it - hoping the air will turn into something familiar and solid.
Lillian E. Smith
#9. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Lillian, my sweet love ... you're safe now. I'll never let anything happen to you again. I swear it on my life. You're safe.
Lisa Kleypas
#10. I could never be lonely without a husband, but without my trinkets, my golden gods, I could find abysmal gloom.
Lillian Russell
#12. Lillian looked around the room.
"Where are the others? The Prescott girl and the good-looking one?"
"Baby," said Rusty, "I'm right here.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#13. Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.
Lillian Smith
#14. Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
Lillian Smith
#15. Lillian did not know then that the one who believes he can pay this early debt meets a bottomless well. Because the first denial has set off a fatality of revenge which no amount of giving can placate.
Anais Nin
#16. Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Lillian Smith
#17. You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.
Lillian Gish
#19. Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.
Lillian Hellman
#20. Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation
Lillian Hellman
#21. 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.
Lillian Hellman
#22. The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next.
Lillian B. Rubin
#23. The question in crisis or ordeal is not: Are you going to be an extremist? The question is: What kind of extremist are you going to be?
Lillian Smith
#26. From our earliest beginnings, we have been a nation obsessed with sex, titillated by it at the same time that we fear it, elaborating rules to contain it at the same time that we violate them.
Lillian B. Rubin
#27. I'm not ready to settle down with anyone. Especially not someone that I've only just met. I'd have to be stark, raving mad to give up my life. I don't know how I can trust you. I. Don't. Know. You.
Sofia Grey
#28. Daisy gave her a speaking glance, and her sister grinned. "Never fear," Lillian continued, "eventually we will succeed in infiltrating London society, and then we'll marry Lord Heavydebts and Lord Shallowpockets, and finally assume our places as ladies of the manor.
Lisa Kleypas
#29. I can't remember a time when I wasn't acting, so I can't imagine what I would do if I stopped now.
Lillian Gish
#30. Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women
Lillian B. Rubin
#31. Write like the whole world's reading..."
Lillian White
Lillian White
#32. I'm no angel." - Lillian Hayes
"Who wants an angel anyway." - Nicholas Brace
Dangerous Ties by Debra Parmley
Debra Parmley
#33. If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
Lillian Hellman
#35. We are hidiously rich Annabelle
and I've got three older brothers, all unmarried. Would you consider one of them? If you like, I'll have one shipped across the Atlantic for your inspection. -Lillian Bowman
Lisa Kleypas
#36. I have always been suspicious of the phrase, the glow of pregnancy, and my suspicions were only confirmed by Lillian's appearance. Instead of a glow, her whole body seemed to become more and more dull, sallow and sickly sweet and vague, like a candle burning out or a line of smudged writing.
John Burnside
#37. More than two thousand five hundred years ago. We have no way of knowing who painted this wall, but he speaks to us across all those centuries. Veii may have been defeated, but the spirit of these people speaks to us and triumphs over time.
Lillian Marek
#38. Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
Lillian Hellman
#39. Always have some project under way...an ongoing project that goes from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time.
Lillian Troll
#40. Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
Lillian Hellman
#41. Yet Lillian is all heart and love, but fearless in the face of foe.
Morrissey
#42. Sometimes a person has to accept who they are before they can share it with someone else.
Lillian Feisty
#43. Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
Lillian Hellman
#44. Church is a school for sinners, not a club of saints.
Lillian Daniel
#45. For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
Lillian Hellman
#46. I'm no relation to Lillian or Dorothy Gish. Not even way back. But when I first became interested in acting, I wrote a letter to Lillian Gish. She wrote back, discouraging me from entering the business.
Annabeth Gish
#47. I don't know what it is, but even when I pretty much like a man, after I date him a while, he gets to seem kind of tiresome. I just can't be bothered to act interested anymore, and then I finally tell him I don't want to go out anymore. They always get upset. - Lillian
Charlaine Harris
#48. Children's books do not exist in a vacuum, unrelated to literature as a whole. They are a portion of universal literature and must be subjected to the same standards of criticism as any other form of literature.
Lillian H. Smith
#49. Have you noticed how few men in the peerage are young and nice-looking?" Lillian asked wryly. "Most of them are dull-witted, ancient, or possess the kind of face that should have a hook in its mouth.
Lisa Kleypas
#50. I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for the night.
Lillian Hellman
#51. Failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
Lillian Hellman
#53. It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.
Lillian Hellman
#54. In fact, the family as an institution is both oppressive and protective and, depending on the issue, is experienced sometimes one way, sometimes the other - often in some mix of the two - by most people who live in families.
Lillian B. Rubin
#55. I don't need to be married to Georgia O'Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to.
Alec Baldwin
#56. 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.
Lillian Hellman
#57. I wanted Lillian Hellman to be perfect because I wasn't perfect myself. I really wanted a mentor.
Rosemary Mahoney
#59. Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?
Lillian Hellman
#60. Women find ways to give sense and meaning to daily life
ways to be useful in the community, to keep mind active and soul growingeven while they change diapers and cook vegetables.
Lillian B. Rubin
#61. So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.
Lillian Russell
#62. Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.
Lillian Wald
#63. Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
Lillian Hellman
#64. It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
Lillian Hellman
#65. Lillian walked into every room as if she owned it. She walked across this one as if she owned it but was slightly horrified to find herself there, like a queen in a basement.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#67. Lillian's recurrent dream of a ship that could not reach the water, that sailed laboriously, pushed by her with great effort, through city streets, had determined her course toward the sea, as if she would give this ship, once and for all, its proper sea bed.
Anais Nin
#68. Despite his flaws, one has to admit that he is a whale-sized catch."
"I'll be thrilled when someone harpoons him," Lillian muttered, making the other two laugh.
Lisa Kleypas
#69. Prostitutes have no heart; actors haven morals.
Lillian Lee
#72. I have learned that love is often strongest where it is most threatened. Where it is most terrorised is where it most profusely grows.
Lillian White
I Would Send You Poppies
Lillian White
#73. He who would rise like Thee, like Thee must owe His glory only to his stooping low. - Bethune.
Lillian G. Harvey
#74. Some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.
Lillian Hellman
#75. Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine.
Lillian Russell
#76. We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.
Lillian Hellman
#77. A couple was leaning over the railing, and Lillian could hear the woman say: Even if you don't mean it, just for tonight, say you love me. I won't ever remind you of it; I will not see you again, but just for tonight say you love me, say you love me.
Anais Nin
#78. To become successful, one must put themselves in the paths of giants!
Lillian Cauldwell
#79. I'm not kind, darling. I'm only nice to people when I'm planning to take advantage of them." Lillian responded with a carefree grin, daring to ask, "Am I in danger from you, my lord?" Though his expression remained relaxed with good humor, his eyes were disturbingly intent. "I'm afraid so.
Lisa Kleypas
#80. Taking a step forward, I stood in the light, tilted my head back and closed my eyes. It held my face and wrapped its arms around my shoulders, and for the very first time, I let hope in. (Lillian Hunt)
Jennifer DeLucy
#81. History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.
Lillian Hellman
#82. Everything went downhill after Lillian [Gish] left me.
D.W. Griffith
#83. I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do ... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery.
Lillian Hellman
#84. As Lillian walked into the orangery, she was suffused in the scent of... oranges. But lemons, bays, and myrtles also cast their fragrance extravagantly through the gently heated air.
Lisa Kleypas
#85. Lillian's face went white and her eyes looked blind as a creature's that had lived underground all its life and only now emerged into the horror of the sun.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#86. Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want.
Lillian Hellman
#87. I suppose when you say you slept with him, it was more than just a nap?"
Lillian shot her a withering glance. "Daisy, don't be a pea wit.
Lisa Kleypas
#88. The society girl meets more dangers than the girl on the stage. There is more danger at a tango tea than in the theatre. The actor is less dangerous than the dancing master.
Lillian Russell
#91. Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Lillian Hellman
#93. You don't always know how to do things when they're happening.
Lillian Hellman
#94. As long as you are curious, you will never be bored.
Lillian Gish
#95. The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.
Lillian Gish
#96. Good God-is there nothing you won't stoop to?"
"If there is," Lillian replied smartly, "I haven't discovered it yet.
Lisa Kleypas
#97. - Choose a wish , Find a dream , Pick a wishing star , Let you hopes and freedoms sore high and free and far , Just believe in the impossible then work and try to do ; fo only those who dare to dream , Can make a dream come true.
Lillian Ross
#98. It had been drilled into us that when an audience pays to see a performance, it is entitled to the best performance you can give.Nothing in your personal life must interfere, neither fatigue, illness, nor anxiety
not even joy.
Lillian Gish
#99. You like the girl," Alasdair offered.
Nassar leveled a heavy gaze at him.
"Lillian said you tried to be funny in the car. I told her it couldn't possibly be true. The moment you try to make a joke, the sky shall split and the Four Horsemen will ride out, heralding Apocalypse.
Ilona Andrews
#100. If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.
Lillian Hellman
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