Streetcar quotes

• Stella

  “I was - sort of - thrilled by it.”
• Stella


  "He was as good as a lamb when I came back and he’s really very, very ashamed of himself"
• Stella


  "But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark—that sort of make everything else seem—unimportant."
• Stella


  "You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of."
• Stanley


  "There’s even something—sub-human—something not quite to the stage of humanity yet! Yes, something ape-like about him"
• Stanley


  "'Pig - Polack - disgusting - vulgar - greasy!' - them kind of words have been on your tongue and your sister's too much around here!"
• Stanley


  "We've had this date with each other from the beginning"
• Stanley


  [He picks up her inert figure and carries her to the bed]
• Stanley


  "you thought I was common. Well, how right you was. I was common as dirt. You showed me a snapshot of the place with them columns, and I pulled you down off them columns, and you loved it, having them colored lights goin"
• Blanche


  "A seventeen-year-old boy—she’d gotten mixed up with!'"
• Blanche


  ""I don't want realism. I want magic"
• Blanche


  "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
• Blanche


  ""I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty percent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth."
• Blanche


  "A hot bath and a long, cold drink always give me a brand-new outlook on life!"
• Blanche


  ""There was something different about the boy, a nervousness, a softness and tenderness which wasn't like a man's"
• Blanche


  "you disgust me"
• Blanche


  [polka music sounds faint and in the distance] "a few moments later - a shot"
• Blanche


  "scarlet satin robe"
• Mitch


  "You need somebody. And I need somebody, too. Could it be—you and me, Blanche?"
• scene 9

  "flores para los muertos"
• Stanley

  "Roughly dressed in blue denim work clothes"
• Blanche


  "I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action"
• Blanche - light


  "She cries out as if the lantern was herself"
• Mitch


  "Poker shouldn't be played in a house with women"
• Mitch

  "You're not clean enough to bring in a house with my mother"
• Mitch - scene 9 


  "[Fumbling to embrace her]"
• Stanley

  'Soaking in a hot tub...Her Majesty'