Cat On A Hot Tin Roof Quotes

Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool night on and — [He looks up, smiling sadly.] — all of a sudden there’s—peace!

I don’t know what love means.

People like to do what they used to do after they’ve stopped being able to do it.

I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)

While you might see a cat on a hot tin roof, a dog on a hot tin roof would be yowling its head off.

When I was a kid I used to go to the movies, double features in outdoor theaters, and my parents used to take us to see like, ‘Cat On a Hot Tin Roof’ or something like that, with Elizabeth Taylor.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you

Maggie the cat is alive. I’m alive.

Just another four-letter word.

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.

I’ve got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. If he’s got money, he buys and he buys and he buys. The reason he buys everything he can is because of some crazy hope that one of the things he buys will be life everlasting.

Liquor is one way out an’ death’s the other.