583 Quotes by Truman Capote

New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.

As we grow older all is too explainable, the capacity to invent pleasurable alarm recedes: too bad, a pity - throughout our lives we ought to believe in ghost hotels.

The trouble with all these far-right and far-left mentalities is that they can encompass only one side of an argument and are congenitally incapable of holding two opinions in their heads at the same time.

You know the days when you get the mean reds?Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues?Holly Golightly: 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?

It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.

It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.

But if you live your life without feeling and compassion for your fellowman—you are as an animal—'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth' & happiness & peace of mind is not attained by living thus.

He looked as lonely and innapropriate as a seagull in a wheat field.

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.