I don’t think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
KATHARINE HEPBURNIf you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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Life is very hard, isn’t it? It does kill you, after all.
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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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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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He’s worked his entire life and he’s never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.
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I love rain. It’s lucky, I always think.
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I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
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The 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.
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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.
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I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
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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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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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Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.
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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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Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.
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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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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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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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Never complain. Never explain.
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Listen to the song of life.
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Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.
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If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
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If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather like an old building.
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It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.
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I’ve made forty-three pictures. Naturally I’m adorable in all of them.
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I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to, and I’ve made enough money to support myself, and ain’t afraid of being alone
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The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
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