Quote

Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.

Truman Capote

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
Actor
Artist
Author
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Truman Streckfus Persons
Truman Garcia Capote
Listener
Listeners
Secrets
Especially
Told
Secret
Never
Menacing
Teller

More quotes by Truman Capote

Image
Before birth yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like now: these trees, that sky, this earth, those acorn seeds, sun and wind, all the same, while they, with dust-turned hearts, change only.
Truman Capote
Image
I knew Lee Harvey Oswald, and I knew Jack Kennedy. The odds against that-one person knowing all four of those men-must be astounding.
Truman Capote
Image
There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
Truman Capote
Image
It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
Truman Capote
Image
I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good.
Truman Capote
Image
Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.
Truman Capote
Image
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 other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity.
Truman Capote
Image
It's odd about tattoos. I've talked to several hundred men convicted of homicide-multiple homicide, in most cases. The only common denominate- I could find among them was tattoos. A good eighty percent of them were heavily tattooed.
Truman Capote
Image
I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.
Truman Capote
Image
Traveling wears me out.
Truman Capote
Image
Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.
Truman Capote
Image
A boy has to peddle his book.
Truman Capote
Image
I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.
Truman Capote
Image
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
Truman Capote
Image
Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is.
Truman Capote
Image
Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase.
Truman Capote
Image
It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.
Truman Capote
Image
She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.
Truman Capote
Image
There is really no practical help that one can offer: it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own conviction, or working with one's own work your style is what seems natural to you. It is a long process of discovery, one that never ends. I am working at it, and will be as long as I live.
Truman Capote
Image
Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.
Truman Capote