Holly Golightly: It's useful being top banana in the shock department.
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!
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.
Holly Golightly: How do I look?
Paul Varjak: Very good. I must say, I'm amazed.
[last lines]
Holly Golightly: Cat! Cat! Oh, Cat... ohh...
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.
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!
Paul Varjak: I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before.
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.
Paul Varjak: And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors.