Streetcar: key quotes Flashcards
(27 cards)
Blanche: ‘I don’t want…
‘I don’t want realism. I want magic!…I don’t tell truths. I. tell what ought to be truth’.
Blanche: ‘Whoever you are…
‘whoever you are - I have always depended on the kindness of strangers’
Blanche: ‘I know I fib…
‘I know I fib a good deal. After all, a women’s charm is fifty per cent illusion’
Blanche: ‘I like it dark…
‘I like it dark. The dark is comforting to me’
Blanche: ‘Who told you I wasn’t…
‘Who told you I wasn’t- “straight”? My loving brother-in-law’
Blanche” ‘Yes a big spider…
‘Yes a big spider! That’s where I brought my victims’
Blanche: ‘There was no where…
‘There was no where else I could go’
Blanche: ‘Stanley and shaw have…
‘Stanley and shaw have tied an old tin can to the tail of a kite’
Blanche: ‘never inside…
‘Never inside. I didn’t lie in my heart…’
Mitch: ‘You’re not clean…
‘You’re not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother’
Stanley: ‘Hold this…
‘Hold this bone-headed cry-baby!’
Blanche: ‘They told me…
‘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: ‘he’s just not…
‘he’s just not the type that goes for jasmine perfume’ (this about Stanley)
Stanley: ‘What I am is…
‘What I am is a one hundred percent American…so don’t ever call me a polack’
Blanche: ‘I thought you’d…
‘I thought you’d never come back to this horrible place!’
Blanche: ‘I know you must….
‘I know you must have some liquor on the place!’
Blanche: ‘I can’t stand a naked…
‘I can’t stand a naked lightbulb, any more than I can a rude remark of vulgar action’
Stella: ‘You never did…
‘You never did give me the chance to say much, Blanche. So, I just got in the habit of being quiet around you’
Stella: ‘This is my…
‘This is my house and I’ll talk as much as I want to’
Stella: ‘I wish you’d stop…
‘I wish you’d stop taking it for granted that I’m in something I want to get out of’
Stanley: ‘We have the Nap…
‘We have the Napoleonic code, what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband’
Stanley: ‘Liquor goes fast…
‘Liquor goes fast in the hot weather. You want a shot?’
Stanley: ‘It looks like you have been…
‘It looks like you’ve been swindled, baby, and when you’re swindled under the Napoleonic code I’m swindled too. And I don’t like to be swindled’
Stanley: ‘Wasn’t we happy together…
‘Wasn’t we happy together, wasn’t it all okay till she showed here?’
