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Top 400 Truman Capote Quotes (2026 Update)
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Truman Capote Quote: “The stifling room was musty; it smelled of old furniture and the burned out fires of wintertime...”

351. “The stifling room was musty; it smelled of old furniture and the burned out fires of wintertime...”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “After all, it was “painful” to imagine that one might be “not just right” – particularly if what was wrong was not your fault but “maybe a thing you were born with.”

352. “After all, it was “painful” to imagine that one might be “not just right” – particularly if what was wrong was not your fault but “maybe a thing you were born with.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “When Miss Bobbit saw them, two boys whose flower-masked faces were like yellow moons, she rushed down the steps, her arms outstretched.”

353. “When Miss Bobbit saw them, two boys whose flower-masked faces were like yellow moons, she rushed down the steps, her arms outstretched.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “It is almost impossible for a man who enjoys freedom with all its prerogatives, to realize what it means to be deprived of that freedom.”

354. “It is almost impossible for a man who enjoys freedom with all its prerogatives, to realize what it means to be deprived of that freedom.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “E mai bine sa te uiti la cer decat sa traiesti acolo. Un loc atat de singuratic; atat de nelamurit. Doar un tinut unde se ivesc trasnete si unde totul dispare.”

355. “E mai bine sa te uiti la cer decat sa traiesti acolo. Un loc atat de singuratic; atat de nelamurit. Doar un tinut unde se ivesc trasnete si unde totul dispare.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “What a terrible thing when neighbors can’t look at each other without kind of wondering!”

356. “What a terrible thing when neighbors can’t look at each other without kind of wondering!”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “But I know what I like.′ She smiled, and et the cat drop to the floor. ‘It’s like Tiffany’s,‘she said. ‘Not that I give a hoot about jewellery. Diamonds, yes. But it’s tacky to wear diamonds before you’re forty; and even that’s risky.”

357. “But I know what I like.′ She smiled, and et the cat drop to the floor. ‘It’s like Tiffany’s,‘she said. ‘Not that I give a hoot about jewellery. Diamonds, yes. But it’s tacky to wear diamonds before you’re forty; and even that’s risky.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Mille tendresse.”

358. “Mille tendresse.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “As is customary, the warden, having finished his recitation, asked the condemned man whether he had any last statement to make. Hickock nodded. “I just want to say I hold no hard feelings. You people are sending me to a better world than this ever was”;.”

359. “As is customary, the warden, having finished his recitation, asked the condemned man whether he had any last statement to make. Hickock nodded. “I just want to say I hold no hard feelings. You people are sending me to a better world than this ever was”;.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “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.”

360. “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.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “He stood there whispering the names of the evening stars as they opened in flower above him. The stars were his pleasure, but tonight they did not comfort him: they did not make him remember that what happens to us on earth is lost in the endless shine of eternity.”

361. “He stood there whispering the names of the evening stars as they opened in flower above him. The stars were his pleasure, but tonight they did not comfort him: they did not make him remember that what happens to us on earth is lost in the endless shine of eternity.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Holly had married him: well, well. I wished I were under the wheels of the train.”

362. “Holly had married him: well, well. I wished I were under the wheels of the train.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “She is still a child.”

363. “She is still a child.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “And so, along paths bordered by tender regard, by total fidelity, they began to go their semiseparate ways – his a public route, a march of satisfying conquests, and hers a private one that eventually wound through hospital corridors.”

364. “And so, along paths bordered by tender regard, by total fidelity, they began to go their semiseparate ways – his a public route, a march of satisfying conquests, and hers a private one that eventually wound through hospital corridors.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Old women beat their heads against the walls, moaning men prostrated themselves: it was the art of sorrow, and those who best mimicked grief were much admired. After the funeral everyone went away, satisfied that they’d done a good job.”

365. “Old women beat their heads against the walls, moaning men prostrated themselves: it was the art of sorrow, and those who best mimicked grief were much admired. After the funeral everyone went away, satisfied that they’d done a good job.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Is it because my friend is shy with everyone except strangers that these strangers, and merest acquaintances, seem to us our truest friends?”

366. “Is it because my friend is shy with everyone except strangers that these strangers, and merest acquaintances, seem to us our truest friends?”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.” THE.”

367. “Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.” THE.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Brazil! That’s where they’re building a whole new capital city. Right from scratch. Imagine getting in on the ground floor of something like that! Any fool could make a fortune.”

368. “Brazil! That’s where they’re building a whole new capital city. Right from scratch. Imagine getting in on the ground floor of something like that! Any fool could make a fortune.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Who needs money anyhow? Leastwise, not right aways we don’t... except for dopes. We ought to save enough so we can have a dope every day cause my brains get fried if I can’t have myself an ice-cold dope. And cigarettes. I surely do appreciate a smoke. Dopes and smokes and Henry are the only things I love.” “You like me some, don’t you?” he said, without meaning really to speak aloud. In any case, Idabel... did not answer.”

369. “Who needs money anyhow? Leastwise, not right aways we don’t... except for dopes. We ought to save enough so we can have a dope every day cause my brains get fried if I can’t have myself an ice-cold dope. And cigarettes. I surely do appreciate a smoke. Dopes and smokes and Henry are the only things I love.” “You like me some, don’t you?” he said, without meaning really to speak aloud. In any case, Idabel... did not answer.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “The inhabitants of the village, numbering two hundred and seventy, were satisfied that this should be so, quite content to exist inside ordinary life – to work, to hunt, to watch television, to attend school socials, choir practice, meetings of the 4-H Club.”

370. “The inhabitants of the village, numbering two hundred and seventy, were satisfied that this should be so, quite content to exist inside ordinary life – to work, to hunt, to watch television, to attend school socials, choir practice, meetings of the 4-H Club.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Joel gazed down on the jumbled green, trying to picture the music room and the dancers... but the willows were willows and the goldenrod goldenrod and the dancers dead and lost.”

371. “Joel gazed down on the jumbled green, trying to picture the music room and the dancers... but the willows were willows and the goldenrod goldenrod and the dancers dead and lost.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “You know what’s going to happen to you?” she said, with no hint of a stutter. “I’m going to march you over to the zoo and feed you to the yak.”

372. “You know what’s going to happen to you?” she said, with no hint of a stutter. “I’m going to march you over to the zoo and feed you to the yak.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives.”

373. “Four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “We are speaking of love. A leaf, a handful of seed – begin with these, learn a little what it is to love. First a leaf, a fall of rain, then someone to receive what a leaf has taught you, what a fall of rain has ripened. No easy process, understand; it could take a lifetime, it has mine, and still I’ve never mastered it – I only know how true it is; that love is a chain of love, as nature is a chain of life.”

374. “We are speaking of love. A leaf, a handful of seed – begin with these, learn a little what it is to love. First a leaf, a fall of rain, then someone to receive what a leaf has taught you, what a fall of rain has ripened. No easy process, understand; it could take a lifetime, it has mine, and still I’ve never mastered it – I only know how true it is; that love is a chain of love, as nature is a chain of life.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “I waited until ten past six, then made myself delay five minutes more.”

375. “I waited until ten past six, then made myself delay five minutes more.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Really, though, I toted up the other night, and I’ve only had eleven lovers – not counting anything that happened before I was thirteen because, after all, that just doesn’t count.”

376. “Really, though, I toted up the other night, and I’ve only had eleven lovers – not counting anything that happened before I was thirteen because, after all, that just doesn’t count.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “La idea de someterme a otra forma de vida disciplinada me desesperaba.”

377. “La idea de someterme a otra forma de vida disciplinada me desesperaba.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “I have a fair chance they won’t catch me. Provided you keep your bouche fermez.”

378. “I have a fair chance they won’t catch me. Provided you keep your bouche fermez.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Dar e duminica, domnule Bell. Ceasurile raman in urma duminica. Si apoi, nici nu m-am culcat inca, ii spuse ea si apoi ii marturisi: Vreau sa spun – nu ca sa dorm.”

379. “Dar e duminica, domnule Bell. Ceasurile raman in urma duminica. Si apoi, nici nu m-am culcat inca, ii spuse ea si apoi ii marturisi: Vreau sa spun – nu ca sa dorm.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Far from resenting these lessons, the pupil, to please his tutor, once composed a sheaf of poems, and though the verses were very obscene, Perry, who thought them nevertheless hilarious, had had the manuscript leather-bound in a prison shop and its title, Dirty Jokes, stamped in gold.”

380. “Far from resenting these lessons, the pupil, to please his tutor, once composed a sheaf of poems, and though the verses were very obscene, Perry, who thought them nevertheless hilarious, had had the manuscript leather-bound in a prison shop and its title, Dirty Jokes, stamped in gold.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “She played very well, and sometimes sang too. Sang in the hoarse, breaking tones of a boy’s adolescent voice.”

381. “She played very well, and sometimes sang too. Sang in the hoarse, breaking tones of a boy’s adolescent voice.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “He looked as lonely and innapropriate as a seagull in a wheat field.”

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

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Successful theft exhilarates.”

383. “Successful theft exhilarates.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “In the night his hand sometimes searches it out, and his fingers drift across the strings: then, the world.”

384. “In the night his hand sometimes searches it out, and his fingers drift across the strings: then, the world.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Her smile was fragmentary, it clung to her lips like cake crumbs.”

385. “Her smile was fragmentary, it clung to her lips like cake crumbs.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “What I’ve found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany’s. It calms me down right away, teh quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their suites, 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.”

386. “What I’ve found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany’s. It calms me down right away, teh quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind men in their suites, 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.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Fitzgerald has charm. It’s a silly word, but it’s an exact word for me. I like ‘The Great Gatsby’ and it’s sad, gay nostalgia.”

387. “Fitzgerald has charm. It’s a silly word, but it’s an exact word for me. I like ‘The Great Gatsby’ and it’s sad, gay nostalgia.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Excitement – a variety of creative coma – overcame me.”

388. “Excitement – a variety of creative coma – overcame me.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Mr. Capote twice won the O. Henry Memorial Short Story Prize and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He died in August 1984, shortly before his sixtieth birthday.”

389. “Mr. Capote twice won the O. Henry Memorial Short Story Prize and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He died in August 1984, shortly before his sixtieth birthday.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “I noticed a taxi stop across the street to let out a girl who ran up the steps of the Forty-second Street public library. She was through the doors before I recognized her, which was pardonable, for Holly and libraries were not an easy association to make.”

390. “I noticed a taxi stop across the street to let out a girl who ran up the steps of the Forty-second Street public library. She was through the doors before I recognized her, which was pardonable, for Holly and libraries were not an easy association to make.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “She was seventy-four years old, but in Nye’s opinion, “looked younger – maybe ten minutes younger.”

391. “She was seventy-four years old, but in Nye’s opinion, “looked younger – maybe ten minutes younger.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “The fine lawn surrounding.”

392. “The fine lawn surrounding.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “It was drowning in the earth, this house, and they, all of them, were submerging with it.”

393. “It was drowning in the earth, this house, and they, all of them, were submerging with it.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “E plicticos, dar raspunsul e ca lucrurile bune nu ti se intampla decat daca esti si tu bun.”

394. “E plicticos, dar raspunsul e ca lucrurile bune nu ti se intampla decat daca esti si tu bun.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “If you walk a singular path, you always carry a certain grief.”

395. “If you walk a singular path, you always carry a certain grief.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “You had to believe it, because it was really true.”

396. “You had to believe it, because it was really true.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “He lost her to a quadrille of partners who gobbled up her stammered jokes like popcorn tossed to pigeons.”

397. “He lost her to a quadrille of partners who gobbled up her stammered jokes like popcorn tossed to pigeons.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Graham Greene was a first-class writer. Until the Vatican grabbed him.”

398. “Graham Greene was a first-class writer. Until the Vatican grabbed him.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “And turning in space, her hair swung like a victory. They danced until all at once and as one the music dimmed and the stars went dark.”

399. “And turning in space, her hair swung like a victory. They danced until all at once and as one the music dimmed and the stars went dark.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “But the hands of bidders flickered shyly – work-roughened hands timid of parting with hard-earned cash;.”

400. “But the hands of bidders flickered shyly – work-roughened hands timid of parting with hard-earned cash;.”

— Truman Capote

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