If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.
KATHARINE HEPBURNIt would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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What in the world would we do without our libraries?
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You can’t change the music of your soul.
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I love rain. It’s lucky, I always think.
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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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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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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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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.
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Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
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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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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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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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You are the only person you can actually change.
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Without discipline, there’s no life at 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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