Breakfast at Tiffany's Quotes

“I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods. For instance, there is a brownstone in the East Seventies where, during the early years of the war, I had my first New York apartment.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

“When I've found does the most good is just to get into taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their nice suits, and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets. If I could find a reallife place that made me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

“Even if you get away with it, you'll never be able to come home."
"Well, so, tough titty. Anyway, home is where you feel at home. I'm still looking.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

“Ich möchte nichts besitzen, bis ich weiß, ich habe den Ort gefunden, wo ich und das ganze Drumherum zusammengehören. (S.40,Holly)”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

“Good things only happen to you if you’re good. Good? Honest is more what I mean… Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I’d rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

“Никога не се влюбвайте в диво същество, господин Бел - посъветва го Холи. - Това беше грешката на Док. Той все мъкнеше вкъщи разни диви същества. Хищни птици с наранени криле. А веднъж дори голям рис със счупен крак. Но човек не бива да отдава сърцето си на диво същество; колкото повече го отдава, толкова по-силни стават тези същества. Докато станат достатъчно силни да избягат в гората. Или да отлетят на някое дърво. После на по-високо. После в небето. Такъв е краят, господин Бел. Ако си позволите да обикнете диво същество. Накрая ще останете само с поглед към небето.
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Желая ти щастие; и вярвай ми, скъпи Док, много по-добре е да гледаш към небето, отколкото да живееш тук. Такова пусто място; толкова мрачно. Просто земя, където тътнат гръмотевици и всичко изчезва.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

“You got to be rich to go mucking around in Africa.

For all her chic thinness, she had an almost breakfast-cereal air of health, a soap and lemon cleanness, a rough pink darkening in the cheeks.

I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.

I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and my things belong together.

It's tacky to wear diamonds before you're forty; and even that's risky. They only look right on the really old girls. Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds.

He's been put together with care, his brown hair and bullfighter's figure had an exactness, a perfection, like an apple, an orange, something nature has made just right. Added to this, as decoration, were an English suite and a brisk cologne and what is still more unlatin, a bashful manner.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

Never love a wild thing. You can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they are strong enough to run into the woods.

Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany, but almost.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

“She received V-letters by the bale. They were always torn into strips like bookmarks. I used occasionally to pluck myself a bookmark in passing. Remember and miss you and rain and please write and damn and goddamn were the words that recurred most often on these slips; those, and lonesome and love.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

“She received V-letters by the bale. They were always torn into strips like bookmarks. I used occasionally to pluck myself a bookmark in passing. Remember and miss you and rain and please write and damn and goddamn were the words that recurred most often on these slips; those, and lonesome and love.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's