I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
KATHARINE HEPBURNWithout discipline, there’s no life at all.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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To be loved is very demoralizing.
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
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I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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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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I’m a legend because I’ve survived over a long period of time and still seem to be master of my fate – I’m still paddling the goddamned boat myself.
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Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
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You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
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Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.
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I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, ‘Try one. Try a skirt.’
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It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
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People think that I’m tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.
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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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