What in the world would we do without our libraries?
KATHARINE HEPBURNThe woman’s position in the world today is so much harder than a man’s that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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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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Isn’t it fun getting older? is really a terrible fallacy. That’s like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.
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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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I’ve always thought men and women are not too well suited to each other. It’s inevitable that they should come together, but, again, how well suited are they to live together in the same house?
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I think all good actors are personalities. If they’re not, they’re not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.
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I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old – or being young, for that matter.
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It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
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You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don’t, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
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I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.
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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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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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If you follow all of the rules, you’ll miss all of the fun.
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Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.
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