Quotes from Katharine Hepburn

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.

Love Katharine Hepburn. Her selfless love to Spencer, with little or no regard for her own needs, wants or care, bothers me. The book while interesting, was not what i expected, yet, the last chapter was the most disturbing, love knows no bounds, she had unconditional love for Spencer, it is a shame it was not reciprocated. she deserved so much more. but she did it out of love. how can you argue with that? i hope her free spirit is still surrounding all of us.

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

You suddenly realize what a tremendous opportunity it is just to be alive. The potential. If you can keep a-goin'--you actually can do it. So just keep a-goin'--you can win. It's when you stop that you're done.

Funny the things which civilization has to offer when one misses. Flooring is a lovely thing. Gives one confidence. During my five weeks' occupancy the mud floor stayed wet in spite of great care on my part not to slop the water again. It never did properly dry, because the hut was necessarily dark. No direct sun came in, and the humidity was so terrific that even in direct sunlight nothing ever dried out. Curious to live on a slippery surface. A floor is a very important item.

The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and whatever you do, if you don't keep doing it, the jungle will grow over you. Black or white, you've got to fight it every minute of the day.

If motherhood doesn't interest you, don't do it. It didn't interest me, so I didn't do it. Anyway, I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.

Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.

If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.

As one goes through in life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

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

prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Living wasn't easy for you, was it? You couldn't enter your own life, but you could be someone else. You weren't you, then; you were safe.

Because you suddenly realize what a tremendous opportunity it is just to be alive. The potential. If you can keep a-goin'—you actually can do it. So just keep a-goin'—you can win. It's when you stop that you're done.

Personal charm is a great help. You can sit there and be an awful ass, but if you have personal charm, you can really put it over on the general public

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

I pray for guidance but blush when I get it.

How I miss you two. I was so used to turning to you. It was heaven. Always to have you two to turn to in despair, in joy. There you were: strong—funny. Two rocks. What you did for me—wow! What luck to be born out of love and to live in an atmosphere of warmth and interest.

It seems to me I discovered what "I love you" really means. It means I put you and your interests and your comfort ahead of my own interests and my own comfort because I love you. What does this mean? I love you. What does this mean? Think. We use this expression very carelessly. LOVE has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get—only with what you are expecting to give—which is everything.

He was Irish to the fingertips. He could laugh and he could create laughter. He had a funny way of looking at things—at some things, I should say.

To learn responsibility - each of us has to learn responsibility.

If you are a member of a big family, you always have someone at hand for golf, tennis, walks, movies. You never have to "find company," so to speak.

He summed me up very accurately for what I was: a lady, so called-a sort of a snob-and totally insecure.