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Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’."(on Lillian Hellman)
MARY MCCARTHY
Liar: One who tells an unpleasant truth. ANONYMOUS
It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventur... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism. J.R.R. TOLKIEN When you speak an unpleasant truth, you will not have anyone to admire you and love you. And at that...
APURVA GAGLANI Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.
LILLIAN HELLMAN They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say ...
LILLIAN HELLMAN If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or ...
LILLIAN HELLMAN I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
LILLIAN HELLMAN You lose your manners when you're poor.
LILLIAN HELLMAN Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they wer...
LILLIAN HELLMAN Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Wanti...
LILLIAN HELLMAN It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
LILLIAN HELLMAN Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
LILLIAN HELLMAN It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip...
LILLIAN HELLMAN I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions
LILLIAN HELLMAN For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
LILLIAN HELLMAN Cynics are made, not born.
LILLIAN HELLMAN Good fathers make good sons
LILLIAN HELLMAN Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
LILLIAN HELLMAN Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view...
LILLIAN HELLMAN I can not and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
LILLIAN HELLMAN People change and forget to tell each other.
LILLIAN HELLMAN Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
LILLIAN HELLMAN The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, it punishments, is there for each of us f...
LILLIAN HELLMAN It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that k...
LILLIAN HELLMAN Was it always in my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success become...
LILLIAN HELLMAN The only thing good about it is you're not dead.
LILLIAN HELLMAN God forgives those who invent what they need.
LILLIAN HELLMAN Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.
LILLIAN HELLMAN If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The...
LILLIAN HELLMAN There are people who eat earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And ...
LILLIAN HELLMAN It may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant
LILLIAN HELLMAN What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
LILLIAN HELLMAN Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much,...
LILLIAN HELLMAN We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in...
LILLIAN HELLMAN God helps all the children as they move into a time of life they do not understand and must struggle...
LILLIAN HELLMAN Things start out as hopes and end up as habits
LILLIAN HELLMAN Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
LILLIAN HELLMAN Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I wi...
LILLIAN HELLMAN Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
LILLIAN HELLMAN It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a mi...
LILLIAN HELLMAN Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I d...
LILLIAN HELLMAN The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us...
LILLIAN HELLMAN My father was often angry when I was most like him.
LILLIAN HELLMAN Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
LILLIAN HELLMAN It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a ...
LILLIAN HELLMAN Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the loc...
LILLIAN HELLMAN They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would ...
LILLIAN HELLMAN Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that...
LILLIAN HELLMAN I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
LILLIAN HELLMAN Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in...
LILLIAN HELLMAN
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth. BENJAMIN DISRAELI
My mother had a master's degree and had been a schoolteacher before she started having kids at 3... ALLAN GURGANUS After exchanging pleasantries that involved only pleasant greetings, the unpleasant truth was told. ...
APURVA GAGLANI No matter how much you improve something that is basically an unpleasant experience, it's an unpleas...
JOE QUEENAN
We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consid... JAMES MATTIS
[LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) -] There's something I believe wholeheartedly: Cynicism is the tru... CRAIG FERGUSON
To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pu... ERIC HOFFER
Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic. COLUM MCCANN
Cleaning cat litter is an unpleasant daily chore for me, but the DuraScoop makes it much less unplea... MARK FRAUENFELDER
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn... STEPHEN COLBERT
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see. AYN RAND Life is an audition.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL
Saying of the ProphetTruth
Speaking the truth to the unjust is the best of holy wars.
IDRIES SHAH
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an aut... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Sometimes, Miss Jarmond, it's not easy to bring back the past. There are unpleasant surprises. The t...
TATIANA DE ROSNAY Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.
CHRIS WOODING Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.
MASON COOLEY
Cynicism is the humor of hatred. SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE
The opposite of creativity is cynicism ESA SAARINEN
Temporary extreme fear while saying the truth is easy to overcome than the perpetual fear of the uns... AMIT KALANTRI My shaven head is my way of saying 'I wont take no for an answer,' it is my way of saying &#...
CHRISETTE MICHELE Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade)
KATE SPADE
History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past. DAVID SOUTER
Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism become... JEREMY PAXMAN All religions, in their pure form, will tell you God is Love. And power, fear, division, judgment, o...
THE TRUTH When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus.
Then your focus direct...
THE TRUTH The 'all for me and only me' mentality is the most destructive force on earth.
THE TRUTH When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus.
Then your focus direct...
THE TRUTH We need not fear death, for it is simply the next phase of life. We never die, we simply change form...
THE TRUTH Any perceived 'rejection' is simply a 're-direction'.
THE TRUTH Without awareness, every one of us is at risk of living trapped, an unfulfilled trace of our self, b...
THE TRUTH This is an unpleasant issue -- a negative fact about Latvia.
OJARS KALNINS If you say you will lead a people to a new age then do it, but don't hide behind your laws as an exc...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ If I tell you an unpleasant truth about yourself, consider me both as your enemy and friend at the s...
APURVA GAGLANI
Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion. WILL ROGERS
We discover truth by asking rapier-like questions that cut through the thick fog of doctrinarism. Ar... KILROY J. OLDSTER
I think that citizens should be skeptical of government power. But I fear it's bled over to cyni... JAMES COMEY
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. OSCAR WILDE
Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion. WILL ROGERS
Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion WILL ROGERS The entire family is overwhelmed by the loss of Rachel and Lillian and the events of last weekend.
JOE FLAHERTY
It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for," t... ERIC HOFFER
Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the ... STEPHEN COLBERT There's an old saying about the truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the ...
RICK YANCEY Sarcasm driven by compassion is not a curse, but an unpleasant by-product of a blessing.
AHMED SIDDIQUI Truth is.. I don't trust too much, I don't love too much, I don't hope to much, because that too muc...
DAZZLїиG_Бципу
If what I am saying has anything of truth in it, it will be understood by your heart. But the mind h... BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH
To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality... 
Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal p... 
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we ca... 
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens. 
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. 
Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to -- to balance the family tic... 
A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning. 
You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners. 
You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played ... 
Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to -- to balance the family tick... 
Life is like a coin, you may spend it any way you wish, but you can only spend it once. 
Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women 