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Explore 25 sourced quotes by Katharine Hepburn. Discover famous, inspirational and timeless words with source information.
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We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
Education
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
Life
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
Wisdom
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Wisdom
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
Love
Never complain. Never explain.
Wisdom
It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.
Wisdom
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
Wisdom
Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
Wisdom
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
Wisdom
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
Wisdom
My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
Courage
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.
Wisdom
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.
Friendship
It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.
Life
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.
Love
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.
Wisdom
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Wisdom
Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
Life
I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
Wisdom
Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
Wisdom
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Wisdom
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.
Life
As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
Success
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