Truman Capote’s “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” Quotes (37 Quotes)
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- Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- For all her chic thinness, she had an almost breakfast-cereal air of health, a soap-and-lemon cleanness, a rough pink darkening of the cheeks.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- Love should be allowed. I'm all for it. Now that I've got a pretty good idea what it is.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- Good luck and believe me, dearest Doc - it's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that's why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- He wants awfully to be inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- My yardstick is how somebody treats me.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- Home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- Perhaps, like most of us in a foreign country, he was incapable of placing people, selecting a frame for their picture, as he would at home; therefore all Americans had to be judged in a pretty equal light, and on this basis his companions appeared to be tolerable examples of local color and national character.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
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