Quote

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

Tennessee Williams

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
Eternity
Pieces
Hours
Afternoons
Hands
Rainy
Littles
Orleans
Little
Dropped
Long
Afternoon
Love
Hour

More quotes by Tennessee Williams

Image
I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
Tennessee Williams
Image
My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights.
Tennessee Williams
Image
Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
Tennessee Williams
Image
I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II
Tennessee Williams
Image
You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath
Tennessee Williams
Image
We've had this date with each other from the beginning.
Tennessee Williams
Image
Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
Tennessee Williams
Image
Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it.
Tennessee Williams
Image
Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.
Tennessee Williams
Image
A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.
Tennessee Williams
Image
It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
Tennessee Williams
Image
I'm not in sympathy with Communism except for populations which are in a state of peasantry, actually hungry and starving. The ideal state for me is some form of Socialism, which doesn't yet exist, as far as I know, which doesn't repress the arts, or any race. Consequently I'm not a political person ... except that I'm a revolutionary.
Tennessee Williams
Image
All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.
Tennessee Williams
Image
The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
Tennessee Williams
Image
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
Tennessee Williams
Image
But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary
Tennessee Williams
Image
Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
Tennessee Williams
Image
Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.
Tennessee Williams
Image
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
Tennessee Williams
Image
Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
Tennessee Williams