Truman Capote Quotes (88 Quotes)
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- I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to the scrupulous method of good taste and scientific grooming, the trick had been worked by exaggerating defects; she'd made them ornamental by admitting them boldly.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- She's such a goddamn liar maybe she don't know herself anymore.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of each other had reached that sweet depth where two people communicate more often in silence than in words: an affectionate quietness replaces the tensions, the unrelaxed chatter and chasing about that produce a friendship's more showy, more, in the surface sense, dramatic moments.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- As Miss Golightly was saying, before she was so rudely interrupted...
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- You're wonderful. Unique. I love you.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
- But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
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