Streetcar Named Desire quotes

• Blanche


  "They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and transfer to one called Cemeteries, and ride six blocks and get off at—Elysian Fields!"
• Stage directions


  'Her appearance is incongruous to the setting. She is daintily dressed in a white suit with a fluffy bodice, necklace and earrings of pearl, white gloves and hat, looking as if she were arriving at a summer tea or cocktail party in the garden district.'
• Stage Directions


  'there is something about her uncertain manner and her whites clothes that suggests a moth'
• Blanche


  'Daylight never exposed so total a ruin!'
• Blanche


  'Well , I never had your beautiful self-control'
• Blanche


  'The Grim Reaper had put up his tent on our doorstep! ... Belle Reve was his headquarters!'
• stanley


  'It looks to me like you have been swindled, baby, and when your swindled under the Napoleonic code I'm swindled, too.'
• Stanley


  'Some men are took in by this Hollywood glamour stuff and some men are not.'
• Blanche


  'I like an artist who paints in strong, bold colours, primary colours. I don't like pinks and creams and I never cared for wishy-washy people.'
• Blanche


  'Maybe he's what we need to mix with our blood now that we've lost Belle Reve.'
• Blanche


  'That one seems - superior to the others ... I thought he had a sort of sensitive look.'
• Stella


  'Stanley's the only one of his crowd that's likely to get anywhere.'
• Blanche


  'I bought this adorable little coloured paper lantern at a Chinese shop on Bourbon. Put it over the light bulb!'
• Blanche


  'I can't stand a naked light bulb, anymore than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.'
• Stella


  'Drunk - drunk - animal thing, you!'
• Stanley


  'My baby doll's left me!'
• Blanche


  'Thank you for being so kind! I need kindness now.'
• Stella


  'on our wedding night - ... he snatched off one of my slippers and rushed about the place smashing the light bulbs with it...I was enthralled by it'
• Blanche


  'In my opinion? You're married to a madman.'
• Blanche


  'What you are talking about is brutal desire - just - Desire! - the name of that rattle-trap streetcar that bangs through the Quarter up one narrow street and down another .'
• Stella


  'Haven't you ever ridden on that Streetcar'
• Blanche


  'it brought me here.'
• Blanche


  'Stanley Kowalski - survivor of the stone-age.'
• Blanche


  'soft people have got to court the favour of hard ones ... Have got to be seductive - put on soft colours, the colours of butterfly wings, and glow'
• Blanche


  'Voulez-vous couches avec moi ce soir?'
• Blanche


  'it was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow.'
• Blanche


  'and then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this - kitchen - candle.'
• Stanley


  'Regarded as not just different but downright loco - nuts. And for the last year or two she has been washed up like poison.'
• Stella


  'There are things about my sister I don't approve of.'
• Stella


  'But when she was young, very young, she had an experience that - killed her illusions!'
• Stanley


  'I am the king around here, so don't forget it!'
• Stanley


  I was common as dirt. You showed me a snap-shot of the place with columns. I pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it having them coloured lights going.'
• Mitch


  'He says you've been lapping it up all summer like a wild-cat.'
• Mitch


  'I don't believe I ever seen you in the light.'

  He tears the paper lantern off the light bulb. She utters a frightened gasp.
• Blanche


  'I don't tell truth, I tell what ought to be truth.'
• Blanche


  'I had many intimacies with strangers. After the death of Allan - intimacies with strangers was all i seemed able to fill my empty heart with.'
• Stanley 


  'I had many intimacies with strangers. After the death of Allan - intimacies with strangers was all i seemed able to fill my empty heart with.'
• stanley


  'Take a look at yourself in that worn-out Mardi Gras outfit. ... What queen do you think you are?'
• Blanche


  'But I have been foolish - casting my pearls before swine!'
• stanley


  'You come in here and sprinkle the place with powder and spray perfume and cover the light-bulb with a paper lantern, and lo and behold the place has turned into Egypt and you are the Queen of the Nile! Sitting on your throne and swilling down my liquor.'