Tennessee Williams Quotes


A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.


Citations

Williams, Tennessee. Memoirs. Doubleday, 1975, p. 140.

Related Quotes

He also repeated this quotation in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in 1951.


Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams
  • Born: March 26, 1911
  • Died: February 25, 1983
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Dramatist

Thomas Lanier Williams III, known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.