"The Glass Menagerie" Quotes

I didn't go to the moon, I went much further - for time is the longest distance between two places.

The future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.

Don't think about us, a mother, a daughter, and a son, alone and yet forever trapped in this airless, timeless atmosphere.

I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South.

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it!

I am the member of the family who has a little bit of polish!

I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

In Spain, there was Guernica! But here there was only hot swing music and liquor, dance halls, bars, and movies, and sex that hung in the gloom like a chandelier and flooded the world with brief, deceptive rainbows.