A Streetcar Named Desire Quotes

“Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with!”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

topic:love

“When I was sixteen, I made the discovery—love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me.”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

topic:loveyouth

“magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell truth, I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

topic:truthsin

“Physical beauty is passing. A transitory possession. But beauty of the mind and richness of the spirit and tenderness of the heart–and I have all of those things–aren't taken away, but grow! Increase with the years!”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

topic:timebeautymind

“After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

topic:women

“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

topic:kindness

“Don't you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour—but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands—and who knows what to do with it?”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

topic:eternity

“But some things are not forgivable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable. It is the one unforgivable thing in my opinion and it is the one thing of which I have never, never been guilty.”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

topic:forgivenesscruelty