The Glass Menagerie Quotes

“Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:love man fight

“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.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:truth

“I didn’t go to the moon, I went much further — for time is the longest distance between two places.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:time

“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!”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:time past

“Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:heart memory

“All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:men beauty

“Full steam — Knowledge — Zzzzzp! Money — Zzzzzzp! — Power! That’s the cycle democracy is built on!”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:power money democracy

“When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:beauty

“She lives in a world of her own — a world of little glass ornaments, Mother...”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:world loneliness

“I go to the movies because — I like adventure. Adventure is something I don’t have much of at work, so I go to the movies.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:work adventure

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