Tennessee Williams Quotes

There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk.

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry it's - don't. I'm going to send out for some fried chicken.

With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.

There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics of birth and copulation and death -those monstrous upheavals of life that the Greeks call miasma, defilement- been so brutal or been painted up to look so pretty; have so many people put so much faith in lies and mutability and death death death.

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.

Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.

they may all be drunk at my place, but they're all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we'll lie our way to the truth

Well, that’s that, then. We’re all going to die. Charming.

Lying is before you and the grave is in front of you.

Lying about things large and small has become so accepted by so many that they even lie about lying.

Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.

Look, this is an odd question, but you're kind of cute and you're pretty nice to me. Are you drunk? It's OK if you are.

If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.

In the end a lie is a lie.

A liar must have a good memory. -Mendacem oportet esse memorem

Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.

Everybody get drunk and make bad decisions.

Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other hypocrites, and at his death there would have been an imposing funeral, with miles of carriages, filled with hypocrites, and above his hypocritical dust there would have been a hypocritical monument covered with lies.

Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?" I say, goodnight. The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin.

I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions.