Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot in roof—is there? Is there, baby?
NOT TOO HARD to figure out that that line comes from the Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955). But what about these memorable lines from some notable plays? Can you identify the playwright and the play?
1. For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
2. I can resist everything except temptation.
3. Gin was mother’s milk to her.
4. I hope that was an empty bottle, George. You don’t want to waste good liquor…not on your salary.
5. Tell me about the rabbits, George.
6. Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear.
7. You see things; and you say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say, “Why not?”
ANSWERS
1. Lillian Hellman, from Watch on the Rhine.
2. Oscar Wilde, from Lady Windermere’s Fan.
3. George Bernard Shaw, from Pygmalion.
4. Edward Albee, from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
5. John Steinbeck, from the stage version of Of Mice and Men.
6. Bertolt Brecht, from The Threepenny Opera.
7. Often quoted by Robert F. Kennedy and attributed to him, this quotation is actually by George Bernard Shaw, from Back to Methuselah.