Tennessee Williams

All good art is an indiscretion.

— Tennessee Williams

The mountain violets break the rocks.

— Tennessee Williams

The helpless can't help the helpless.

— Tennessee Williams

“The show is over. The monkey's dead!”

— Tennessee Williams

Funerals are pretty compared to death

— Tennessee Williams

I talk out the lines as I write them.

— Tennessee Williams

Like a Cat on a hot tin roof

— Tennessee Williams

Luck is believing you're lucky.

— Tennessee Williams

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

— Tennessee Williams

Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.

— Tennessee Williams

“I can't guarantee that a lobotomy would stop her— babbling!! ”

— Tennessee Williams

For time is the longest distance between two places.

— Tennessee Williams

“Don't you understand? I was PROCURING for him.”

— Tennessee Williams

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

— Tennessee Williams

Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with!

— Tennessee Williams

We've had this date with each other from the beginning.

— Tennessee Williams

“That Europe is nothin' on earth but a great big auction, that's all it is, that bunch of old worn-out places, it's…

— Tennessee Williams

“The future is called "perhaps", which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not…

— Tennessee Williams

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

— Tennessee Williams

“...love, all at once and much, much too completely. It's like you suddenly turn a blinding light on something that had always…

— Tennessee Williams

“A man like that is someone to go out with—once—twice—three times when the devil is in you. But live with? Have a…

— Tennessee Williams

What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your…

— Tennessee Williams

Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man…

— Tennessee Williams

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

— Tennessee Williams

What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to…

— Tennessee Williams

Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their…

— Tennessee Williams

“Well, you better look out. They got a new bureau in the guvamint files. It’s called U.W. Stands for Useless Wimmen. Tha’s…

— Tennessee Williams

My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to…

— Tennessee Williams

There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by…

— Tennessee Williams

“When I had that attack of pleurosis - he asked me what was the matter when I came back. I said pleurosis…

— Tennessee Williams

“The role of benefactor is worse than thankless, it's the role of a victim, Doctor, a sacrificial victim, yes, they want your…

— Tennessee Williams

“Memory takes a lot of poetic licence. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles…

— Tennessee Williams

“I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it…

— Tennessee Williams

Q.Do you have any positive message, in your opinion? A.Indeed I do think that I do. Q.Such as what? A.The crying, almost…

— Tennessee Williams

I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in…

— Tennessee Williams

“True? Yes, I suppose-unfit somehow-anyway… So I came here. There was nowhere else I could go. I was played out. You know…

— Tennessee Williams

“I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do--then go ahead and do…

— Tennessee Williams

The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hurting the chest as if a fox…

— Tennessee Williams

“Then what is good? The obsessive interest in human affairs, plus a certain amount of compassion and moral conviction, that first made…

— Tennessee Williams

It's to a writer's advantage to contain within himself elements of each sex, or any sex. It's to his advantage because it…

— Tennessee Williams