Tennessee Williams Quotes


22 Tennessee Williams quotes:



"You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with."
Author: Williams Quotes Category: Women Quotes
"Make voyages! Attempt them... there's nothing else."
Author: Williams Quotes Category: Travel Quotes
"Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!"
Author: Williams Quotes Category: Sincerity Quotes
"You said, ''They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.'' -- ''What,'' I asked you, ''is harmless about a dreamer, and what,'' I asked you, ''is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.''"
Author: Williams Quotes Category: Revolutions And Revolutionaries Quotes
"Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real."
Author: Williams Quotes Category: Love Quotes
"A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages."
Author: Williams Quotes Category: Heart Quotes
"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."
Author: Williams Quotes Category: Friends Or Friendship Quotes Quote of the Day Quotes
"Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life"
Author: Williams Quotes Category: Enthusiasm Quotes
"Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth"
Author: Williams Quotes Category: Devil Quotes
"Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics."
Author: Williams Quotes Category: Critics And Criticism Quotes
"It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses."
Author: Williams Quotes Category: Creativity Quotes
"Luck is believing you're lucky."
Author: Williams Quotes Category: Luck Quotes American Dramatist Quotes
"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
Author: Williams Quotes Category: Kindness Quotes American Dramatist Quotes
"I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really."
Author: Williams Quotes Category: Character Quotes American Dramatist Quotes
"Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself."
Author: Williams Quotes Category: Character Quotes American Dramatist Quotes
"The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?"
Author: Williams Quotes Category: Influence Quotes American Dramatist Quotes
"All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress."
Author: Williams Quotes Category: God Quotes American Dramatist Quotes
"Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation."
Author: Williams Quotes Category: Advice Quotes American Dramatist Quotes
"Time is the longest distance between two places."
Author: Williams Quotes Category: Time Quotes American Dramatist Quotes
"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching."
Author: Williams Quotes Category: Success Quotes American Dramatist Quotes



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