Breakfast at Tiffany’s is a 1961 American romantic comedy film directed by Blake Edwards, written by George Axelrod, adapted from Truman Capote’s 1958 novella of the same name, and starring Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, a naïve, eccentric café society girl who falls in love with a struggling writer (George Peppard).Here are some quotes;
Breakfast At Tiffany’s Quotes
- “No matter where you run, you end up running into yourself”
- “Be anything but a coward”
- “Never love a wild thing”
- “It is a natural thing that we should change.”
- “We don’t belong to each other: he’s an independent, and so am I”
- “My yardstick is how somebody treats me.”
- “I’ll never get used to anything…”
- “It’s better to look at the sky than live there”
- “Everybody has to feel superior to somebody”
- “Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.” ― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- “If I do feel guilty, I guess it’s because I let him go on dreaming”
- “If I do feel guilty, I guess it’s because I let him go on dreaming when I wasn’t dreaming a bit.”
- “Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot”
- “Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s - “A stranger who’s a friend”
- “You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who’s a friend.”
- “Just wanna go a-travellin’ through the pastures of the sky”
- “Don’t wanna sleep, don’t wanna die, just wanna go a-travellin’ through the pastures of the sky”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s - “I loved her enough to forget myself”
- “I loved her enough to forget myself, my self-pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.
- “I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning”
- “I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany’s.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s - “You call yourself a free spirit, a “wild thing,” and you’re terrified somebody’s gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you’re already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it’s not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It’s wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.”
- “It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.”
- “The answer is 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.”
- “Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.”
- “It’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes.”
- “You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who’s a friend.”
- “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 real-life place that made me feel like Tiffany’s, then I’d buy some furniture and give the cat a name.”
- “I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.”
- “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.”
- “Reading dreams. That’s what started her walking down the road. Every day she’d walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.”
- “I’ll never get used to anything. Anybody that does they might as well be dead.”
- “You’re wrong. She is a phony. But on the other hand you’re right. She isn’t a phony because she’s a real phony. She believes all this crap she believes. You can’t talk her out of it.”
- “I’ll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead.”
- “Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.”
- “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.”
- “How do I look?” “…Very good. I must say, I’m amazed.”
- “What do you do, anyway?” “…I’m a writer, I guess.”
- “…You know what’s gonna happen to you? I am gonna march you over to the zooand feed you to the yak.”
