Quotes by Tennessee Williams

“I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by cer...”

“He was always running or bounding, never just walking. He seemed always at the point of defeating the law of gravity.”

“Luck is believing your lucky.”

“...the human animal is a selfish beast...”

“It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature”

“In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.”

“Success and failure are equally disastrous.”

“I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if...”

“A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.”

“Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.”

“For time is the longest distance between two places.”

“All good art is an indiscretion.”

“You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.”

“To be free is to have achieved your life.”

“Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.”

“The future is called 'perhaps', which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.”

“...human beings dream of life everlasting. But most of them want it on earth and not in heaven.”

“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”

“Princess, the great difference between people in this world is not between the rich and the poor or the good and the evil, the biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had ...”

“People go to the movies instead of moving.”