Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Holly Golightly: It's useful being top banana in the shock department.

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Holly Golightly: He's all right! Aren't you, cat? Poor cat! Poor slob! Poor slob without a name! The way I see it I haven't got the right to give him one. We don't belong to each other. We just took up one day by the river. I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It's like Tiffany's.


Paul Varjak: Tiffany's? You mean the jewelry store?
Holly Golightly: That's right. I'm just CRAZY about Tiffany's!

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Holly Golightly: But just look at the goodies she brought with her.
Paul Varjak: He's all right, I suppose, if you like dark, handsome, rich-looking men with passionate natures and too many teeth.

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Holly Golightly: [re the nightclub stripper] Do you think she's talented, deeply and importantly talented?
Paul Varjak: No. Amusingly and superficially talented, yes. But deeply and importantly, no.

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Paul Varjak: Holly, you're drunk.
Holly Golightly: True.

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Holly Golightly: How do I look?
Paul Varjak: Very good. I must say, I'm amazed.

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Holly Golightly: Ahh... Do I detect a look of disapproval in your eye?
[sprays perfume in Paul's direction]
Holly Golightly: Tough beans buddy, 'cause that's the way it's gonna be.

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

[Holly whistles loudly to hail a cab]
Paul Varjak: I never could do that.
Holly Golightly: It's easy.

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

[last lines]
Holly Golightly: Cat! Cat! Oh, Cat... ohh...

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

O.J. Berman: Hey, Fred-baby!
Paul Varjak: No, no. It's Paul-baby.

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Holly Golightly: Timber!

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Holly Golightly: [drunk] As Miss Golightly was saying before she was most rudely interrupted...

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Paul Varjak: [giving his name at the police station] Paul Varjak. Varjak, V A R J A K. I'm a writer, W R I T E R.

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Paul Varjak: [Holly, while having a nightmare, begins crying] Why are you crying?
Holly Golightly: [wakes up] If we're going to be friends let's get one thing straight right now. I hate snoops!

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Mag Wildwood: You know what's gonna happen to you? I am gonna march you over to the zoo and feed you to the yak.

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Holly Golightly: I've got to do something about the way I look. I mean a girl just can't go to Sing Sing with a green face.

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Holly Golightly: We're alike, me and cat. A couple of poor nameless slobs.

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Paul Varjak: I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before.

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Holly Golightly: Thursday! It can't be! It's too gruesome!
Paul Varjak: What's so gruesome about Thursday?
Holly Golightly: Nothing, except I can never remember when it's coming up.

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Paul Varjak: And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors.