Blanche Quotes

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Of all the old maid's blessing, the greatest is carte blanche. Spinsterhood is powerful; once a woman is called "that crazy old maid" she can get away with anything.

Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois

Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!

And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

You cannot give the vice president the authority to declassify specific information and then turn around and say he can just give carte blanche to an assistant of his to declassify whatever he wants.

In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.

Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.

Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything mattered—-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework assignments.

Stella: And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby.. [she smiles to herself] Blanche: I guess that is what is meant by being in love.

Don't expect to know your husband inside and out within a month of marriage. For a long time you will be making discoveries

Don't expect to drop into matrimonial harmony with the end of the honeymoon

Eugène Ney Terre’Blanche is the man who had such a long record of infamy the devil would be blue with envy.