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
half world would-be
Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!
writing world pleasure
There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
way world paper
The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.
doors credit world
There's no better credit card in the world than driving up at a bank door in a Cadillac limousine.
writing goes-on world
There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.
world compromise trouble
The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.
hands world levels
For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.
goodbye blow world
For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .
giving-up world resistance
Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
funny humor world-suffering
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
half insincere lots says sincere sincerity
Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!
longest time
Time is the longest distance between two places.
depended kindness
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
asked dreamers good harmless love loved needs remember revolution revolutions-and-revolutionaries
You said, ''They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.'' -- ''What,'' I asked you, ''is harmless about a dreamer, and what,'' I asked you, ''is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.''