Famous Quotes / Tennessee Williams
42 Quotations by Tennessee Williams
- 1. A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with ...
- 2. A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
- 3. All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
- 4. All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senil ...
- 5. Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.
- 6. Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- 7. Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
- 8. Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincer ...
- 9. Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for anot ...
- 10. I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
- 11. I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewr ...
- 12. I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
- 13. I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty percent illusion.
- 14. It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in ...
- 15. Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch i ...
- 16. Luck is believing you're lucky.
- 17. Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. Wh ...
- 18. Make voyages! - Attempt them! - there's nothing else...
- 19. Make voyages! Attempt them... there's nothing else.
- 20. Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out and death's the other.