Paul Varjak: They're not the kind of stories you can really tell.
Holly Golightly: Too dirty?
Paul Varjak: Yeah, I suppose they're dirty, too, but only incidentally. Mainly they're angry, sensitive, intensely felt, and that dirtiest of all dirty words - promising. Or so said The Times Book Review, October 1, 1956.


--George Peppard (as Paul Varjak) in Breakfast at Tiffany's

Paul Varjak: You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.
[takes out the ring and throws it in Holly's lap]
Paul Varjak: Here. I've been carrying this thing around for months. I don't want it anymore.


--George Peppard (as Paul Varjak) in Breakfast at Tiffany's

Molly Lang: Hired killers.
Dolan: The badge gives them a license.


--George Peppard (as ) in Rough Night in Jericho

Molly Lang: Mr. Dolan, if you can't handle whiskey, you shouldn't drink.
Dolan: [With quizzical look on his face] Who put who to bed last night?... Hmm?


--George Peppard (as ) in Rough Night in Jericho

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


--George Peppard (as Paul Varjak) in Breakfast at Tiffany's