Tennessee Williams Quotes

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.

We're all flawed people at the end of the day; I don't know any perfect people.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

Because we're human beings, we're not always going to be perfect.

I am a man of many flaws and contradictions.

We all have faults.

I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.

Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!

We're all damaged somehow."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

God loves broken people because broken people are all that there are.

I don't think being flawed is a bad thing for a character... nor do I think it's a bad thing for a person in life, because that's how we all are.

If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we were to acknowledge honestly that we have not virtue enough to bear patiently with our neighbor's weaknesses, we should show our own imperfection, and this alarms our vanity.

No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it." I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

All of us have schnozzles... if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles, instead of defending them, we begin to laugh, and the world laughs with us.

I'm a good person, but with many defects.

The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope.

People are made up of flaws.

You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses.

I'm not a saint. I'm not an angel. I'm a human being.

If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting.

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.'