533 Quotes by Tennessee Williams

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

I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

I know! WHY! – Am I so catty? – Cause I’m consumed with envy an’ eaten up with longing? –

The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.

Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think... The little there is belongs to people who have experienced some sorrow.

A beautiful trust. A rare and beautiful trust. It makes me cry a little. That’s all that life has to give in the way of perfection. The warm and complete understanding of two in a close-walled room with the windows blind to the world.

I think you have a great capacity for devotion,

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.