Streetcar Quotes

“They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!” – Blanche, Scene 1

“They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!” – Blanche, Scene 1

"Don't get worried, your sister hasn't turned into a drunkard she's just all shaken up and hot and tired and dirty! You sit down, now, and explain this place to me! What are you doing in a place like this?" - Blanche, Scene 1

"Don't get worried, your sister hasn't turned into a drunkard she's just all shaken up and hot and tired and dirty! You sit down, now, and explain this place to me! What are you doing in a place like this?" - Blanche, Scene 1

“He sizes women up at a glance, with sexual classifications, crude images flashing into his mind and determining the way he smiles at them” – Stage directions, Scene 1

“He sizes women up at a glance, with sexual classifications, crude images flashing into his mind and determining the way he smiles at them” – Stage directions, Scene 1

“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 2

“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 2

“Poker shouldn’t be played in a house with women” – Mitch, Scene 3

“Poker shouldn’t be played in a house with women” – Mitch, Scene 3

“But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark – that sort of make everything else seem – unimportant” – 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

“What you are talking about is brutal desire – just Desire! – the name of that rattle-trap street-car that bangs through the Quarter, up one old narrow street and down another…” – Blanche

“What you are talking about is brutal desire – just Desire! – the name of that rattle-trap street-car that bangs through the Quarter, up one old narrow street and down another…” – Blanche

“Thousands and thousands of years have passed him right by, and there he is – Stanley Kowalski – survivor of the stone age! Bearing the raw meat home from the kill in the jungle! And you – you here – waiting for him! Maybe he’ll strike you or maybe grunt and kiss you!” – Blanche, Scene 4

“Thousands and thousands of years have passed him right by, and there he is – Stanley Kowalski – survivor of the stone age! Bearing the raw meat home from the kill in the jungle! And you – you here – waiting for him! Maybe he’ll strike you or maybe grunt and kiss you!” – Blanche, Scene 4

“I want to kiss you – just once – softly and sweetly on your mouth…It would be nice to keep you, but I’ve got to be good and keep my hands off children” – Blanche, Scene 6

“I want to kiss you – just once – softly and sweetly on your mouth…It would be nice to keep you, but I’ve got to be good and keep my hands off children” – Blanche, Scene 6

“you are the one that abandoned Belle Reve, not I! I stayed and fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it!” Blanche, Scene 1

“you are the one that abandoned Belle Reve, not I! I stayed and fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it!” Blanche, Scene 1