533 Quotes by Tennessee Williams

Ignorance – of mortality – is a comfort. A man don’t have that comfort, he’s the only living thing that conceives of death, that knows what it is.

Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.

Monsters don’t die early; they hang on long. Awfully long. Their vanity’s infinite, almost as infinite as their disgust with themselves.

Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman’s charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. – Blanche Scene II.

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...

BLANCHE: You see I still have that awful vanity about my looks even now that my looks are slipping!

Everything diminishes with time, my darling, but my feelings for certain people pierce me daily, and it is no illusion that they center me and let me know who I am, and let me know that I have loved and have been loved, no matter how badly or clumsily.

I don’t think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we’re all ambiguous sexually.