WIST Quotations

Williams, Tennessee -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

If people behaved in the way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) American playwright
(Attributed)

Williams, Tennessee -- Camino Real, Block 12 (1953)

Dave — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 23:04:42 +0000

ESMERALDA: 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!

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) American playwright
Camino Real, Block 12 (1953)
(Source)

Williams, Tennessee -- Camino Real, Block 8 [Byron] (1953)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) American playwright
Camino Real, Block 8 [Byron] (1953)
(Source)

Williams, Tennessee -- Camino Royale [Byron] (1953)

Dave — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:51:29 +0000

Make voyages! — Attempt them! — there’s nothing else.

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) American playwright
Camino Royale [Byron] (1953)

Williams, Tennessee -- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Act 1 [Margaret] (1955)

Dave — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 20:15:06 +0000

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it. You’ve got to be old with money because to be old without it is just too awful, you’ve got to be one or the other, either young or with money, you can’t be old and without it.

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) American playwright
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Act 1 [Margaret] (1955)
(Source)

Williams, Tennessee -- Memoirs, ch. 9 (1975)

Dave — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:22:45 +0000

Isn’t egomania always the precondition of all creative work? I have found little to dispel that notion.

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) American playwright
Memoirs, ch. 9 (1975)