Breakfast At Tiffanys Quotes

I do not accept drinks from disapproving gentlemen.

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

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 believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong

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

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?

You mustn’t give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get, until they’re strong enough to run into the woods or fly into a tree. And then to a higher tree and then to the sky.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Certain shades of limelight wreck a girl’s complexion.

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

Happy girls are the prettiest girls.