To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
KATHARINE HEPBURNBeing 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.
More Katharine Hepburn Quotes
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A boy sows a wild oat or two, the world winks. A girl does the same — scandal.
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I don’t think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
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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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Loved people are loving people.
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Without discipline, there’s no life at all.
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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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It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
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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 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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I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time.
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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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I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
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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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Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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