Tennessee Williams Quotes
Best 8 The Glass Menagerie Quotes by Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie Quotes
“All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.”
“Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.”
“How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”
“In memory, everything seems to happen to music.”
“People go to the movies instead of moving.”
“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
“Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.”
“You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.”
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Tennessee Williams Sources
- All quotes by Tennessee Williams (34 quotes)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (8 quotes)
- Camino Real (2 quotes)
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2 quotes)
- Conversations with Tennessee Williams (1 quote)
- Memoirs (1 quote)
- Sweet Bird of Youth (1 quote)
- The Glass Menagerie (8 quotes)
- The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (2 quotes)
- The Rose Tattoo (1 quote)
- Other quotes by Tennessee Williams (8 quotes)