Quotes by Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

Explore a curated collection of 14 quotes by Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you ill — Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
Time is the longest distance between two places. — Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America — Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others a — Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
Memory takes a lot of poetic licence. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of — Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
She lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments… — Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of. Because other people ar — Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
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 movie — Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
Yes, movies! Look at them — All of those glamorous people — having adventures — hogging it all, gobbling the whole thing — Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
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 — Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the p — Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter. — Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
He was always running or bounding, never just walking. He seemed always at the point of defeating the law of gravity. — Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
People go to the movies instead of moving. — Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie