The Night of the Iguana Quotes

I don’t mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don’t regard a home as a … well, as a place, a building … a house … of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can … well, nest.

Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.

We live on two levels, the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really…[to Miss Jelkes]

The helpless can’t help the helpless.

The decline of the Western world began with the invention of the wheel.

Nothing human disgusts me unless it’s unkind.

Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level.

Lead them beside still waters because you know how badly they need still waters.

I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.

Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It’s the big female weapon, and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it.

Guessing isn’t knowing.

Everything has its shadowy side.