Breakfast at Tiffany's Quotes

“Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.”

“Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is.”

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

“Papa, I got two wild yunguns locked in the kitchen.”

“Papa, I got two wild yunguns locked in the kitchen.”

“You’re wonderful. Unique. I love you.”

“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.”

“Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.”

“It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I’ll give you two.”

“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 on the East by Somaliland--it’s wherever you go, because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.”

“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 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.”

“Everybody has to feel superior to somebody,” she said. “But it’s customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.”

“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.”

“I told you: you can make yourself love anybody.”

“It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.”

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

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

“What I’ve found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany’s.”

“‘Darling,’ she instructed me, ‘would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn’t read this sort of thing without her lipstick.‘”

“If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky.”

“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.”

“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.”

“But it’s Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.”