583 Quotes by Truman Capote

Another little girl brought a baked chicken, presumably to be eaten on the bus; the only trouble was she’d forgotten to take out the insides before cooking it. Miss Bobbit’s mother said that was all right by her, chicken was chicken; which is memorable because it is the single opinion she ever voiced.

They shared a doom against which virtue was no defense.

Shoot, boy, the country’s just fulla folks what knows everything, and don’t understand nothing, just fullofem.

Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany’s, but almost.

That’s not writing, that’s typing.

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

Randolph,” he said, “were you ever as young as me?” And Randolph said: “I was never so old.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

It is easy to ignore the rain if you have a raincoat.