Tennessee Williams

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

Subjects Tennessee Williams spoke about

Bohemia Brotherhood Change Frankness Humankind Hypocrisy Isolation Lies and Lying Loneliness Memory Money Sensitivity Strangers Success Suffering Suspicion Time and Time Management