Quotes by Tennessee Williams

“Laws of silence don't work....When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of...”

“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”

“The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think the reason he buys everything he can buy is that in the back of his mind he has the crazy hope that...”

“I know! WHY! Am I so catty? Cause Im consumed with envy an eaten up with longing? ”

“She lives in a world of her own a world of little glass ornaments”

“When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”

“All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.”

“The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of. Because other people are not such wonderful people. They're one hundred times one thousand. You're o...”

“I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.”

“The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire-escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and impl...”

“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”

“You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!”

“When something is Festering on your memory or in your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house ...”

“CORNELIA: -Sit down. Don't leave the table.GRACE: -Is that an order?CORNELIA: -I don't give orders to you, I make requests.GRACE: -Sometimes the requests of an employer are hard to distinguish from...”

“The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hurting the chest as if a fox was caught in it, and then at last Mr. Kroger began to lecture the boy...”

“What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can...”

“These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep...”

“Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see each other in ”

“I go to the movies because I like adventure. Adventure is something I dont have much of at work, so I go to the movies.”

“Yes, movies! Look at them All of those glamorous people having adventures hogging it all, gobbling the whole thing up! You know what happens? People go to the movies instead of moving! Hollywood...”