F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

Let us learn how to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead' he sugg...

There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not throu...

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices ...

A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twist...

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about...

By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. The...

no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . And then one fine morning...

She was appalled by West Egg’s raw vigour that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrus...

That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man".

Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little ...

There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narra...

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard...

And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only over...

. . . confirmed libertines don't reform until they're tired . . .

In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it ...

When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s c...

I don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings ...

Amory, sorry for them, was still not sorry for himself - art, politics, religion, whatever his mediu...

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealis...

The sea, he thought, had treasured it's memories deeper than the faithless land.

Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective o...

Always, after he was in bed, there were voices - indefinite, fading, enchanting - just outside his w...

Here, Earth-born, over the lilt of the water,Lisping its music and bearing a burden of light,Bosomin...

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person t...

There were days when Amory resented that life had changed from an even progress along a road stretch...

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

C'mon, Amory. Your romance is overYou don't know how true you spoke. No idea. 'At's the whole troubl...

I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he...

Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.

Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple...

You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street ...

If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or magnifi...

They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.

I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the...

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were contin...

New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as ...

If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t dist...

The sheath that held her soul had assumed significance - that was all. She was a sun, radiant, growi...

He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his en...

I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the...

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

But magic must hurry on, and the lovers remain...

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

Her eyes in the half-light suggested night and violets, and for a moment he stirred again to that ha...

their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. T...

One o’ clock. With her fork she would tantalize the heart of an adoring artichoke, while her escort ...

I refuse to dedicate my life to posterity. Surely one owes as much to the current generation as to o...

It's only when the settlement work has gone on for months that one realizes how bad things are. As o...

The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkn...

He found that the business of optimism was no mean task.

What a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacings back and forth...

In April war was declared with Germany. Wilson and his cabinet—a cabinet that in its lack of distinc...

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, mo...

Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen ...

There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, ...

A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courag...

The soft rush of taxis by him, and laughter, laughters hoarse as a crow's, incessant and loud, with ...

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beaut...

He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search ...

I detest these underdone men, he thought coldly. Boiled looking! Ought to be shoved back in the oven...

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the...

It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul in...

Rather nice night, after all. Stars are out and everything. Exceptionally tasty assortment of them.

All I think of ever is that I love you.

Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chose...

There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aiml...

Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly...

All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superio...

I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth...

Each night when she prepared for bed she smeared her face with some new unguent which she hoped illo...

It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his d...

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's...

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

He watched her for several minutes. Something was stirred in him, something not accounted for by the...

The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts...

If I hurt your feelings we ought to discuss it. I don't like this kiss-and-forget.''But I don't want...

This is all. It's been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful. But this wouldn't do...

Yet Anthony knew that there were days when they hurt each other purposely—taking almost a delight in...

I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world...

I just think of people," she continued, "whether they seem right where they are and fit into a pictu...

My mind, brightened by the lights and the cheerful tumult, suddenly grasped the fact that all achiev...

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the sa...

This is what I think now; that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness. I...

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement --discouragement has a germ of its own, as d...

I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn’t want to see any people at all. I had s...

Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rate ...

There are always those to whom all self-revelation is contemptible, unless it ends with a noble than...

I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'...

I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed befor...

I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked h...

He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was r...