Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams
Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams IIIwas an American playwright and author of many stage classics. Along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller he is considered among the three foremost playwrights in 20th-century American drama...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth26 March 1911
CountryUnited States of America
men thinking spirit
But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary
opinion guilty cruelty
Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
beauty beautiful broken
How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.
death dying life-is
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
good-morning morning levels
Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level.
men people looks
Why, man alive, Laura! Just look about you a little. What do you see? A world full of common people! All of 'em born and all of em' going to die! Which of them has one-tenth of your good points! Or mine! Or anyone else's, as far as that goes - gosh! Everybody excels in some one thing. Some in many!
childhood together saws
I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together
memories play sentimental
Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic.
men play hunters
Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!
girl nice cutting
Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.
cat hot tin
Like a Cat on a hot tin roof
glasses matter break
Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
funny hilarious girl
All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.
people genius pockets
Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there.