Tennessee Williams
18 quotations
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
For time is the longest distance between two places.