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Quotes from The Glass Menagerie — Tennessee Williams

1911–1983 United States

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15 quotes

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

The Glass Menagerie (1944)

People go to the movies instead of moving!

The Glass Menagerie (1944)

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

The Glass Menagerie (1944)

Every time you come in yelling that God damn "Rise and Shine!" "Rise and Shine!" I say to myself, "How lucky dead people are!"

The Glass Menagerie (1944)

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

The Glass Menagerie (1944)

Mother, when you're disappointed, you get that awful suffering look on your face, like the picture of Jesus' mother in the museum!

The Glass Menagerie (1944)

Things have a way of turning out so badly.

The Glass Menagerie (1944)

I'm tired of the movies and I am about to move!

The Glass Menagerie (1944)

You don't know things anywhere! You live in a dream; you manufacture illusions!

The Glass Menagerie (1944)

Shakespeare probably wrote a poem on that light bill, Mrs. Wingfield.

The Glass Menagerie (1944)

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 illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

The Glass Menagerie (1944)

I'll just imagine he had an operation. The horn was removed to make him feel less — freakish! Now he will feel more at home with the other horses, the ones that don't have horns…

The Glass Menagerie (1944)

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!

The Glass Menagerie (1944)

Why you're not crippled, you just have a little defect — hardly noticeable, even! When people have some slight disadvantage like that, they cultivate other things to make up for it — develop charm — and vivacity — and — charm!

The Glass Menagerie (1944)

Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down… So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!

The Glass Menagerie (1944)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Tennessee Williams (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.