Leona Helmsley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I'm a very firm believer that a liar is a cheat and a thief and a crook. I don't like liars. I never lie. I always told my own child, "If you murder somebody, tell me. I'll help you hide the body. But don't you lie to me.
-- Leona Helmsley

#Children #Liars #Lying
We don't pay taxes. The little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley

#Business #People #Littles
Money enhances a man, yes, as beauty enhances a woman.
-- Leona Helmsley

#Funny #Money #Men
I've always wanted to be the biggest real estate man to come down the pike.
-- Leona Helmsley

#Real #Men #Estates
There's nothing deader than a dead love.
-- Leona Helmsley

#Love
If a woman is successful, she'd better duck, because they'll be out to get her.
-- Leona Helmsley

#Women #Successful #Ducks
I don't hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people.
-- Leona Helmsley

#Nice #People #Being Nice
I'm starting to mistrust my judgment.
-- Leona Helmsley

#Judgment #Starting #Mistrust

I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
If, in the course of a thousand or two thousand years, science arrives at the necessity of renewing its points of view, that will not mean that science is a liar. Science cannot lie, for it's always striving, according to the momentary state of knowledge, to deduce what is true. When it makes a mistake, it does so in good faith. It's Christianity that's the liar. It's in perpetual conflict with itself.
This arch-liar today shows that Britain never was in a position to wage war alone. This gabbler, this drunkard Churchill. And then his accomplice in the White House, this mad fool.
Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I always end by falsifying and fictionalizingâ€”Iâ€™m a liar, in fact. That means Iâ€™m a novelist, after all. I write about what I know.
Like I've said before, so many times before, I'm not a good person, I'm not a hero. I'm a criminal, a liar, a cheat, a killer. It was them or me and I wanted to live.
The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.
Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough to sleep.
Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.

Leona Helmsley famous quotes

You may also like: