Quotations from the Play Use the following quotations to discuss specific events from A Streetcar Named Desire in context, or to discuss the universal ideas expressed by the quotations. You might use the quotations as a springboard to role-playing, or as the first line of letters, poems, and short stories; or you may choose to use them as titles for pictures, paintings, other visual images or music. Blanche:
“Out there, I suppose, is the ghoul-haunted woodland of the Weir!”
Blanche:
“And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.”
Stanley:
(Speaking of liquor) “Some people rarely touch it, but it touches them often.”
Stanley:
“All right! How about cuttin’ the re-bop!”
Blanche:
“I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.”
Mitch:
“Poker should not be played in a house with women.”
Blanche:
“In this dark march toward whatever it is we’re approaching . . . Don’t— don’t hang back with the brutes!”
Blanche:
“Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour—but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands— and who knows what to do with it?”
Stanley:
“Remember what Huey Long said: ‘Every man is a King!’—And I am the king around here, so don’t you forget it!”
Stanley:
“I pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it, having them colored lights going!”
Stanley:
“Luck is believing your lucky.”
Eunice:
“Don’t you ever believe it. You’ve got to keep on goin’, honey. No matter what happens, we’ve all got to keep on going.”
Blanche:
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
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