APPEARANCES QUOTES

BLANCHE
And turn that over-light off! Turn that off! I won’t be looked at in this merciless glare! (1.75)

BLANCHE
…You know I haven’t put on one ounce in ten years, Stella? I weigh what I weighed the summer you left Belle Reve. The summer Dad died and you left us… (1.123)

STELLA
And admire her dress and tell her she’s looking wonderful That’s important with Blanche. Her little weakness! (2.22)

STANLEY
Compliments to women about their looks. I never met a woman that didn’t know if she was good-looking or not without being told, and some of them give themselves credit for more than they’ve got. I once went out with a doll who said to me, "I am the glamorous type, I am the glamorous type!" I said. "So what?" (2.103)

BLANCHE
…After all, a woman’s charm is fifty percent illusion… (2.129)

STANLEY
Well this somebody named Shaw is under the impression he met you in Laurel, but I figure he must have got you mixed up with some other party because this other party is someone he met at a hotel called the Flamingo.
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BLANCHE
I’m afraid he does have me mixed up with this "other party." The Hotel Flamingo is not the sort of establishment I would dare to be seen in! (5.38-9)

BLANCHE
It isn’t enough to be soft. You’ve got to be soft and attractive. And I – I’m fading now! I don’t know how much longer I can turn the trick. (5.60)

STELLA
She is. She was. You didn't know Blanche as a girl. Nobody, nobody was as tender and trusting as she was. But people like you abused her, and forced her to change. (8.50)

BLANCHE
A cultivated woman, a woman of intelligence and breeding can enrich a man’s life – immeasurably! I have those things to offer, and this doesn’t take them away. Physical beauty is passing. A transitory possession. But beauty of the mind and richness of the spirit and tenderness of the heart – and I have all of those things. […] But I have been foolish - casting my pearls before swine! (10.44)