Katharine Hepburn

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.

I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.

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

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

Vitality! That's the pursuit of life isn't it?

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

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.

If you give audiences a chance they'll do half your acting for you.

Now how can anybody look at that and not believe in God? I mean, how can anybody look at this and not believe there is some higher power, some divine force at work in the universe greater than Man, some god that created it, that created all this, that created us?

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

The country is like a great sponge__t 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.

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.

I truly believe that people do the best they can.

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

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

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.

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