Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Quotes

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a play by Tennessee Williams. This tragedy first appeared in 1955--based (at least in part) on "Three Players of a Summer Game," a short story Williams had previously written. Williams received his second Pulitzer Prize for this work. Here are a few quotes from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

• "What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?—I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can..."
  - Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Act 1
  
  
• "Silence about a thing just magnifies it."
  - Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Act 1
  
  
• "You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it."
  - Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Act 1
  
  
• "One man has one great good true thing in his life."
  - Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Act 1
  
  
• "Life is important. There's nothing else to hold on onto."
  - Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Act 2
  
  
• "The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don’t give him pity for others, no sir."
  - Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Act 2
  
  
• "Hell, you got to live with it, there's nothing else to live with except mendacity, is there?"
  - Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Act 2
  
  
• "Time just outran me, Big Daddy, got there first..."
  - Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Act 2
  
  
• "One thing you can grow on a big place more important than cotton!—is tolerance!—I grown it."
  - Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Act 2
  
  
• "Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early—-almost before you're half acquainted with life—-you meet the other..."
  - Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Act 3