Stanley Kowalski

Cards (19)

  • [Since earliest manhood the centre of his life has been pleasure with women ... He sizes women up at a glance, with sexual classifications, crude images flashing into his mind and determining the way he smiles at them.] - Scene One
  • 'Some people rarely touch it, but it touches them often.' - Stanley, Scene One
  • 'Be comfortable is my motto.' - Stanley, Scene One
  • 'In the state of Louisiana we have the Napoleonic code according to which what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband and vice versa.' - Stanley, Scene Two
  • 'The Kowalskis and the Dubois have different notions.' - Stanley, Scene Two
  • 'Some men are took in by this Hollywood glamour stuff and some men are not.' - Stanley, Scene Two
  • 'I've got th' dope on your big sister, Stella.' - Stanley, Scene Seven
  • 'That girl calls me common!' - Stanley, Scene Seven
  • 'Sister Blanche is no lily!' - Stanley, Scene Seven
  • 'She better move on to some fresh territory ... It's not my soul I'm worried about!' - Stanley, Scene Seven
  • 'he's not going to jump in a tank with a school of sharks' - Stanley, Scene Seven
  • 'What do you think you are? A pair of queens? I am the king around here, so don't forget it!' - Stanley, Scene Eight
  • 'what I am is a one hundred per cent American.' - Stanley, Scene Eight
  • 'Delicate piece she is.' - Stanley, Scene Eight
  • 'How you loved it, having them coloured lights going! And wasn't we happy together, wasn't it all okay till she showed here?' - Stanley, Scene Eight
  • 'Here's something I always break out on special occasions like this! The silk pyjamas I wore on my wedding night!' - Stanley, Scene Ten
  • 'Come to think of it - maybe you wouldn't be bad to - interfere with' - Stanley, Scene Ten
  • 'We've had this date with each other from the beginning!' - Stanley, Scene Ten
  • [There is a moment of silence - no sound but that of Stanley steadily shuffling the cards.] - Scene Eleven