Heart Quotes by Tennessee Williams

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

— Tennessee Williams

“Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart...”

— Tennessee Williams

Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's…

— Tennessee Williams

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

— Tennessee Williams

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.

— Tennessee Williams

Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a…

— Tennessee Williams

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road…

— Tennessee Williams

The human heart would never pass the drunk test… If you took the human heart out of the human body and put…

— Tennessee Williams

The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated,…

— 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

Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart…

— Tennessee Williams

William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time…

— Tennessee Williams