Lib Quotes
  • Authors
  • Topics
  • Lists
  • Pictures
  • Resources
  • More about Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams - Human Quotes

7 Sourced Quotes

View all Tennessee Williams Quotes
    • Source
    • Report...
I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.

Tennessee Williams
    • Source
    • Report...
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!

Tennessee Williams
    • Source
    • Report...
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

Tennessee Williams
    • Source
    • Report...
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

Tennessee Williams
    • Source
    • Report...
The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others.

Tennessee Williams
    • Source
    • Report...
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

Tennessee Williams
    • Source
    • Report...
In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

Tennessee Williams

Quote of the day

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.
Diane Ackerman

Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams
Creative Commons

Born: March 26, 1911
Died: February 25, 1983 (aged 71)
More about Tennessee Williams...

Featured Authors

Ezra PoundSigmund FreudSun TzuGeorge WashingtonOliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.Martin Luther King, Jr.Emily DickinsonVladimir LeninJohn LockeVirginia WoolfHenry David ThoreauColette

Lists

Predictions that didn't happen

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Picture Quotes

If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

Confucius

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Philip James Bailey

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Popular Topics

  • life
  • love
  • nature
  • time
  • god
  • power
  • human
  • mind
  • work
  • art
  • heart
  • thought
  • men
  • day
Lib Quotes

100% Sourced Quotes.

Our motto is: Don't quote it if you can't source it.

Contact us

Social Media

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • X (Twitter)
  • Pinterest

Recent

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Subscribe to our Newsletter:
Quote of the Day
JS and WordPress
Subscribe
to RSS Feeds
© 2017-2025 LibQuotes
Terms of Use / Privacy Policy / About Us

Lib Quotes