Quotes by Katharine Hepburn

A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.

Without discipline theres no life at all.

We are taught you must blame your father your sisters your brothers the school the teachers-you can blame anyone but never blame yourself. Its never your fault. But its always your fault because if you want to change youre the one who has got to change. Its as simple as that isnt it?

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 dont do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.

I dont think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.

As for me prizes mean nothing. My prize is my work.

When I started out, I didnt have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

My greatest strength is common sense. Im really a standard brand - like Campbells tomato soup or Bakers chocolate.

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

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

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

“Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.”