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27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays QUOTES

27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays QUOTES

1 " Of course it’s bound to cause a great deal of very disagreeable talk. Especially ‘round the church! Are you gentlemen Episcopalian? PORTER: No, ma’am. Catholic, Miss Collins. MISS COLLINS: Oh. Well, I suppose you know in England we’re known as the English Catholic church. We have direct Apostolic succession through St. Paul who christened the Early Angles—which is what the original English people were called—and established the English branch of the Catholic church over there. So when you hear ignorant people claim that our church was founded by—by Henry the Eighth—that horrible, lecherous old man who had so many wives—as many as Blue-beard they say! —you can see how ridiculous it is and how thoroughly obnox-ious to anybody who really knows and understands Church History! "

― Tennessee Williams , 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays

2 " I will read long books and the journals of dead writers. I will feel closer to them than I ever felt to people I used to know before I withdrew from the world. It will be sweet and cool this friendship of mine with dead poets, for I won’t have to touch them or answer their questions. They will talk to me and not expect me to answer. And I’ll get sleepy listening to their voices explaining the mysteries to me. I’ll fall asleep with the book still in my fingers, and it will rain. "

― Tennessee Williams , 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays

3 " A beautiful trust. A rare and beautiful trust. It makes me cry a little. That’s all that life has to give in the way of perfection. The warm and complete understanding of two in a close-walled room with the windows blind to the world. "

― Tennessee Williams , 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays

4 " What’s yuh firs’ name? VICARRO: Silva. JAKE: How do you spell it? VICARRO: S-I-L-V-A. JAKE: Silva! Like a silver lining! Ev’ry cloud has got a silver lining. What does that come from? The Bible? VICARRO: (sitting on the steps) No. The Mother Goose Book. "

― Tennessee Williams , 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays

5 " Stop badgering this unfortunate little woman! Is there no mercy left in the world anymore? What has become of compassion and understanding? Where have they all gone to? Where’s God? Where’s Christ? "

― Tennessee Williams , 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays

6 " We go like flies when we come to the end of the summer . . . And who is going to prevent it? "

― Tennessee Williams , 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays

7 " My baby don’ care fo’ rings or other expensive things— My baby just cares—fo’—me! "

― Tennessee Williams , 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays

8 " You’re burning the candle at both ends, Kid . . . (He moves from the table across the room.) And in my humble opinion the light ain’t worth it. "

― Tennessee Williams , 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays

9 " You don’t understand. When a life is completed, it ought to be put away. It’s like a sonnet. When you’ve written the final couplet, why go on any further? You only destroy the part that’s already written! "

― Tennessee Williams , 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays

10 " Oh, dear, dear! I had to walk straight forward—past the last elm tree and into that merciless sunlight. Oh! It beat down on me, scorching me! Whips! . . . Oh, Jesus! . . . Over my face and my body! . . . I tried to walk on fast but was dizzy and they kept closer behind me—! I stumbled, I "

― Tennessee Williams , 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays

11 " We set out early that morning to inspect the ruins of the Acropolis. I know I shall never forget how extraordinarily pure the atmosphere was that morning. It seemed as though the world were not very old but very, very young, almost as though the world had been newly created. There was a taste of earliness in the air, a feeling of freshness, exhilarating my senses, exalting my spirit. How shall I tell you, dear Diary, the way the sky looked? It was almost as though I had moistened the tip of my pen in a shallow bowl full of milk, so delicate was the blue in the dome of the heavens. "

― Tennessee Williams , 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays

12 " Well, you better look out. They got a new bureau in the guvamint files. It’s called U.W. Stands for Useless Wimmen. Tha’s secret plans on foot t’ have ‘em shot! (He laughs at his joke.) "

― Tennessee Williams , 27 Wagons Full of Cotton and Other Plays