Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.

More Quotes By Tennessee Williams

• It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world...
• At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which...
• All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
• There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
• It’s interesting, isn’t it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.
• Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come...
• What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s...
• Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
• Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
• Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
• The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
• A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
• Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
• To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the...
• Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour...