Tennessee Williams Quotes

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness!

He was meddling too much in my private life.

It haunts me, the passage of time. I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you. But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary.

We’re all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.

At the age of 14 I discovered writing as an escape from…being called a sissy by the neighborhood kids, and Miss Nancy by my father.

A drinking man’s someone who wants to forget he isn’t still young an’ believing.

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, for as long as she can.

We have to distrust each other. It’s our only defence against betrayal.

Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.

Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for.

It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.