Top 400 Truman Capote Quotes (2024 Update)
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Truman Capote Quote: “I can’t accept overnight what I’ve always denied.”

401. “I can’t accept overnight what I’ve always denied.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “He went back upstairs, and sat at his desk, and felt as though he were bleeding inside, and wished very much to believe in God.”

402. “He went back upstairs, and sat at his desk, and felt as though he were bleeding inside, and wished very much to believe in God.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “No one comprehended that really he was ill, that grief had made him so, that grief had drawn a circle around him he could not escape from and others could not enter.”

403. “No one comprehended that really he was ill, that grief had made him so, that grief had drawn a circle around him he could not escape from and others could not enter.”

— 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.”

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

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

— 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.”

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

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

— 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.”

408. “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: “It was not, however, an atmosphere she would have chosen for herself – the airless inescapable pressures of intimacy with others would have withered her soon enough – her system required the cold, exclusive climate of the individual.”

409. “It was not, however, an atmosphere she would have chosen for herself – the airless inescapable pressures of intimacy with others would have withered her soon enough – her system required the cold, exclusive climate of the individual.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “I thought writers were quite old.”

410. “I thought writers were quite old.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Kay yawned and rested her forehead against the windowpane, her fingers idly strumming the guitar: the strings sang a hollow, lulling tune, as monotonously soothing as the Southern landscape, smudged in darkness, flowing past the window. An icy winter moon rolled above the train across the night sky like a thin white wheel.”

411. “Kay yawned and rested her forehead against the windowpane, her fingers idly strumming the guitar: the strings sang a hollow, lulling tune, as monotonously soothing as the Southern landscape, smudged in darkness, flowing past the window. An icy winter moon rolled above the train across the night sky like a thin white wheel.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “The fine lawn surrounding.”

412. “The fine lawn surrounding.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “No,” she said slowly. “No, the blues are because you’re getting fat or maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re sad, that’s all. But the mean reds are horrible. You’re afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don’t know what it is. You’ve had that feeling?” “Quite often. Some people call it angst.” “All right. Angst. But what do you do about it?” “Well, a drink helps.”

413. “No,” she said slowly. “No, the blues are because you’re getting fat or maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re sad, that’s all. But the mean reds are horrible. You’re afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don’t know what it is. You’ve had that feeling?” “Quite often. Some people call it angst.” “All right. Angst. But what do you do about it?” “Well, a drink helps.”

— 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.”

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

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

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “The guests stand about in petrified pairs, and there is no conversation. He notices then that many are also saddled with malevolent semblances of themselves, outward embodiments of inner decay.”

416. “The guests stand about in petrified pairs, and there is no conversation. He notices then that many are also saddled with malevolent semblances of themselves, outward embodiments of inner decay.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Joe James, dark-haired, even darker-skinned than Perry, a lithe figure who with his faded huntsman’s shirt and moccasined feet looked as though he had that instant mysteriously emerged from woodland shadows, told.”

417. “Joe James, dark-haired, even darker-skinned than Perry, a lithe figure who with his faded huntsman’s shirt and moccasined feet looked as though he had that instant mysteriously emerged from woodland shadows, told.”

— 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.”

418. “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: “When he was in the army he’d picked up a great many girls: sometimes nothing happened except a lot of talk, and that was all right too: because it didn’t matter what you said to them, for in those transient moments lies or truth were arbitrary and you were whatever you wanted to be.”

419. “When he was in the army he’d picked up a great many girls: sometimes nothing happened except a lot of talk, and that was all right too: because it didn’t matter what you said to them, for in those transient moments lies or truth were arbitrary and you were whatever you wanted to be.”

— Truman Capote

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

420. “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.”

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

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “How silly, my dear; don’t you know that if I came here as a child, then most of me never left?”

422. “How silly, my dear; don’t you know that if I came here as a child, then most of me never left?”

— Truman Capote

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

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

— Truman Capote

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

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

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “Successful theft exhilarates.”

425. “Successful theft exhilarates.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “She was one of those people who can disguise themselves as an object in the room, a shadow in the corner, whose presence is a delicate happening.”

426. “She was one of those people who can disguise themselves as an object in the room, a shadow in the corner, whose presence is a delicate happening.”

— Truman Capote

Truman Capote Quote: “I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn’t fulfill something in me, if I don’t honestly feel it’s the best I can do, then I’m miserable.”

427. “I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn’t fulfill something in me, if I don’t honestly feel it’s the best I can do, then I’m miserable.”

— Truman Capote

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