55 Unforgettable Katharine Hepburn Quotes Every Women Should Know

If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.

  

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything

  

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

  

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Life

  

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.

  

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

  

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

  

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

  

What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.

  

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

Life

  

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

  

You can’t change the music of your soul. —In Esquire, 1967

Music

  

If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.

  

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

  

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

  

I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.

  

I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.

  

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

Never

  

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.

  

Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?

  

Enemies are so stimulating.

  

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun

  

I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

Time

  

Most people our brought up to believe they are as good as the person next to them, I was told I was better.

  

Children need boundaries, so they can know how far they have to go to get beyond them.

  

I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.

Like

  

Life is to be lived.if you have to support yourself,you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.And you don't do that by sitting around.

Life

  

I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.

Me

  

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

  

The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.

Wedding

  

I was fearless...and lawless.

  

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

  

Fuck the roots.

  

I just recently realized that women are supposed to be the inferior sex

  

Be yourself, it's a tough act to follow.

Yourself

  

Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

  

Live dangerously. There's a lot to be said for sinning.

  

Listen to the Song of Life

Life

  

Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.

Like

  

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.

  

No part of marriage is the exclusive province of any one sex.

  

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

  

Heaven to be the first one up and to eat breakfast all alone.

  

How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers—I thought. The wives.

  

My father had been disgusted and heartsick over the fact that I wanted to act. Thought it a silly profession closely allied to street-walking.

  

I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.

  

He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.

Life , Never

  

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.

  

To put it simply: There was no bunk about Bogie. He was a man.

  

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be inferior.

Never

  

[Lauren Bacall] and Bogie seemed to have the most enormous opinion of each other's charms, and when they fought it was with the utter confidence of two cats locked deliciously in the same cage.

  

I truly believe that people do the best they can.

  

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased".

  

When you know better, it's easier to do better" George Chryst

  

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