Breakfast At Tiffanys Quotes

Promise me one thing: don’t take me home until I’m drunk – very drunk indeed.

You mustnt give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get.

I don’t mean I’d mind being rich and famous. That’s very much on my schedule, and someday I’ll try to get around to it; but if it happens, I’d like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany’s.

The mean reds are horrible. You’re afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don’t know what it is.

Laughing is the best calorie burner.

If we’re going to be friends let’s get one thing straight right now. I hate snoops.

Leave it to me: I’m always top banana in the shock department.

No. The blues are because you’re getting fat and maybe it’s been raining too long, you’re just sad that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid and you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?

I’ll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.

I don’t think I’ve ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.

Of course, personally, I think it’d be tacky to wear diamonds before I’m forty.

What I found does the most good is just to get into a 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.

No… the blues are because you’re getting fat or because it’s been raining too long. You’re just sad, that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid and you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?

I don’t want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I’m not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It’s like Tiffany’s.

I believe in manicures.
I believe in overdressing.
I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck.

No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself

I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.

I’ve got to do something about the way I look. I mean a girl just can’t go to Sing Sing with a green face.

If I could find a real life place to make me feel like Tiffany’s, then I’d buy some furniture and give the cat a name.

I do not accept drinks from disapproving gentlemen.

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.

Of course people couldn’t help but think I must be a bit of a dyke myself. And of course I am. Everyone is: a bit. So what? That never discouraged a man yet, in fact it seems to goad them on.

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.

It’s better to look at the sky than live there

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.

And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors.

You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.

we don’t belong to each other: he’s an independent, and so am I.

You know those days when you get the mean reds?

I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Happy girls are the prettiest girls.

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.

Never love a wild thing…If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky.

Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany’s.В  Calms me down right away.

Personal identity seems like it’s just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s’ to Jay Gatsby in ‘The Great Gatsby.’ It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you’re given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

Certain shades of limelight wreck a girl’s complexion.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot”. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly

I don’t want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.