Significant+Quotes.SD

“ 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!” - Blanche “Belle Reve… piece by piece, our improvident grandfathers and father and uncles and brothers exchanged the land for their epic fornications. . .” -Blanche “Oh, I guess he’s just not the type that goes for jasmine perfume, but maybe he’s what we need to mix with our blood now that we’ve lost Belle Reve.” –Blanche “ Whoever you are—I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” –Blanche “ I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.” -Blanche

“I'm very adaptable to circumstances.” – Blanche

“I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth.” –Blanche

“You’re not clean enough to bring into the house with my mother.” –Mitch

“Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable, and the one thing of which I have never,ever been guilty of.” – Blanche

“…a woman's charm is 50% illusion.” –Blanche

“What you are talking about is desire - just brutal Desire.” –Blanche

“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.” –Blanche “I'm the King around here, and don't you forget it.” –Stanley

“The blind are leading the blind!” –Stella

“To hold a front position in this rat-race, you've got to believe you are lucky” -Stanley