Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
KATHARINE HEPBURNA sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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I don’t feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it’s here. And I think anything good that you’re going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.
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If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
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As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
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There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.
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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
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If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
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I don’t fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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Never complain. Never explain.
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I would have been a terrible mother because I’m basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
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If you follow all of the rules, you’ll miss all of the fun.
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The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one’s responsibilities: That’s happiness.
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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
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We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.
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Enemies are so stimulating.
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All my life, I’ve stayed at parties too long because I didn’t know when to go.
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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.
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To be loved is very demoralizing.
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you’ve got less to sell.
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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.
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You don’t pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It’s hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.
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You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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