Streetcar Quote Bank
Sex/desire
★ ‘streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries…and get off
at—Elysian Fields!’
★ ‘When he’s away for a week I nearly go wild!’
★ ‘The centre of his life has been pleasure with women, the giving and taking of it’
★ Blanche’s ‘red satin robe’
★ ‘Our improvident grandfathers…exchanged the land for their epic fornications’
★ ‘Blanche moves back into the streak of light…moves indolently back to the chair’
★ ‘Then they come together with low, animal moans’
★ ‘I was—sort of—thrilled by it’
★ [slowly and emphatically] ‘I’m not in anything I want to get out of’
★ ‘But the only way to live with such a man is to—go to bed with him!’
★ ‘There are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark—that sort of
make everything else seem—unimportant’
★ ‘...brutal desire—just—Desire! The name of that rattle-trap streetcar that bangs
through the Quarter…it brought me here’
★ ‘Men don’t—don’t even admit your existence unless they are making love to you’
★ ‘You make my mouth water’...’I want to kiss you—just once—softly and sweetly on
your mouth’...’I’ve got to be good and keep my hands off children’
★ ‘A plaster statuette of Mae West’
★ ‘Voulez vous couchez avec moi ce soir?’
★ ‘Sister Blanche is no lily!’...’washed up like poison’...’fresh territory’
★ ‘It’s gonna be so sweet when we can make noise in the night the ay we used to and
get the coloured lights going’
★ ‘Death…the opposite is desire’
★ ‘You’re not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother’
★ ‘The bottle cap pops off and a geyser of foam shoots up’
★ ‘We’ve had this date from the beginning’
★ ‘He kneels beside her and his fingers find the opening of her blouse’
Death
★ Setting: ‘Elysian Fields’ / ‘an atmosphere of decay’ / ‘Cemeteries’
★ ‘The long parade to the graveyard’
★ ‘Funerals are quiet, but deaths—not always’
★ ‘Death is expensive’
★ ‘...the Grim Reaper had put his tent on our doorstep…Belle Reve was his
headquarters!’
★ ‘And I—I'm fading now!’
★ ‘They think a girl over thirty ought to—the vulgar term is—”put out”’
★ ‘He was in the quicksands and clutching at me—but I wasn’t holding him out, I was
slipping in with him!’
★ ‘Washed up like poison’
★ ‘She had an experience that—killed her illusions!’
★ ‘The view through the big windows is fading gradually into a still-golden dusk’
★ The ‘Varsouviana’ rising with ‘sinister rapidity’
Sex/desire
★ ‘streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries…and get off
at—Elysian Fields!’
★ ‘When he’s away for a week I nearly go wild!’
★ ‘The centre of his life has been pleasure with women, the giving and taking of it’
★ Blanche’s ‘red satin robe’
★ ‘Our improvident grandfathers…exchanged the land for their epic fornications’
★ ‘Blanche moves back into the streak of light…moves indolently back to the chair’
★ ‘Then they come together with low, animal moans’
★ ‘I was—sort of—thrilled by it’
★ [slowly and emphatically] ‘I’m not in anything I want to get out of’
★ ‘But the only way to live with such a man is to—go to bed with him!’
★ ‘There are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark—that sort of
make everything else seem—unimportant’
★ ‘...brutal desire—just—Desire! The name of that rattle-trap streetcar that bangs
through the Quarter…it brought me here’
★ ‘Men don’t—don’t even admit your existence unless they are making love to you’
★ ‘You make my mouth water’...’I want to kiss you—just once—softly and sweetly on
your mouth’...’I’ve got to be good and keep my hands off children’
★ ‘A plaster statuette of Mae West’
★ ‘Voulez vous couchez avec moi ce soir?’
★ ‘Sister Blanche is no lily!’...’washed up like poison’...’fresh territory’
★ ‘It’s gonna be so sweet when we can make noise in the night the ay we used to and
get the coloured lights going’
★ ‘Death…the opposite is desire’
★ ‘You’re not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother’
★ ‘The bottle cap pops off and a geyser of foam shoots up’
★ ‘We’ve had this date from the beginning’
★ ‘He kneels beside her and his fingers find the opening of her blouse’
Death
★ Setting: ‘Elysian Fields’ / ‘an atmosphere of decay’ / ‘Cemeteries’
★ ‘The long parade to the graveyard’
★ ‘Funerals are quiet, but deaths—not always’
★ ‘Death is expensive’
★ ‘...the Grim Reaper had put his tent on our doorstep…Belle Reve was his
headquarters!’
★ ‘And I—I'm fading now!’
★ ‘They think a girl over thirty ought to—the vulgar term is—”put out”’
★ ‘He was in the quicksands and clutching at me—but I wasn’t holding him out, I was
slipping in with him!’
★ ‘Washed up like poison’
★ ‘She had an experience that—killed her illusions!’
★ ‘The view through the big windows is fading gradually into a still-golden dusk’
★ The ‘Varsouviana’ rising with ‘sinister rapidity’
