Streetcar: key quotes Flashcards
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?’
Mitch: ‘You need…
‘You need somebody. And I need somebody, too’
Stella: ‘Makes everything else…
‘Makes everything else seem - unimportant’
SD: ‘The barley audible…
pg 80
‘The barley audible “blue piano” begins to drum up louder. The sound of it turns into the roar of an approaching locomotive. Blanche crouches, pressing her fists to her ears until it has gone by’
