The Plays of Tennessee Williams! Notable Quotations
The Plays of Tennessee Williams!
Notable Quotations
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” All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.”
The Glass Menagerie
STELLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
You’er forgiven.
“Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable.–Blanche Dubois”― Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Also the title of a biography on Williams.
@Kathy That’s from Streetcar, gotta have some love for Blanche Dubois x
“Mendacity is a system that we live in,” declares Brick. “Liquor is one way out an’death’s the other.” – Cat On a Hot Tin Roof
“Mendacity”, I love this word, when spoken with a southern accent.
@Kathy it is a great word. That’s the main reason I like this quote.
Paul Newman as Brick In Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”
― Tennessee Williams, Camino Real
“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.”
Brick (after his estranged wife Maggie has told him she loves him):
“Wouldn’t it be something if it were true?”
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.
“There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.” (Tennessee Williams, Camino Real) Still not sure if I love or hate this play!
To me, Williams is.more real than is Miller because I think Williams writes with more emotion than does Miller who I think is a rather cold fish.
” A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages”.