Tennessee Williams Quotes - Page 4

Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.

We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.

In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.

Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.

It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.

They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

All good art is an indiscretion.

The human heart would never pass the drunk test.... If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn't do it.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.

I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.

The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.

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.

An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say - He is vain - but they are affected.

I am more faithful than I intended to be!

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.