All Truman Capote Quotes
- Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the… Across
- We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why. All
- Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds: I can't wait. Bones
- I told you: you can make yourself love anybody. Anybody
- Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase. Dizzy
- It should take you about four seconds to walk from here to the door. I'll give you two. Door
- Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio. Better
- 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
- You're wonderful. Unique. I love you. Inspirational
- My yardstick is how somebody treats me. Inspirational
- There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them… All
- If a man doesn't like baseball, then he must like horses, and if he doesn't like either of them, well, I'm in trouble anyway: he… Baseball
- I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it; but… Along
- I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody does. I don't… All
- I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts. All
- 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… Able
- But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays. Bell
- Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that’s why it gets all locked up in… Action
- 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… Baby
- Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist.… Americans