Truman Capote Quotes

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

I am willing ... when I cannot get all I wish, to take what I can get.

If you cannot have what you believe in, you must believe in what you have.

I like to be an optimist, but I like to be a realist, too.

When you cannot have steak, either you eat egg or you don't eat. So, in the end, you eat egg and you enjoy it.

These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.

When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.

if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.

There is a good side to every situation.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.

At my core, the glass isn't half-empty - it's not even what I ordered in the first place.

Choose your love, Love your choice.

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.

You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.

Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing.

Coming from a big family, I learned a lot. Things don't have to be perfect. You can do okay with 'almost.'

I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.

It is best to live however one can be.

Every crowd has a silver lining.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

'I know this is going to end bad, but I'm going to pretend it's going to end good.' My life's philosophy.

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.