Quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.

To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.

People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.

The rich are different from us.

Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night.

mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.

And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.

All things come to him who mates.

Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for its teachings.

God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.

You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.

She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!

good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

We all must try to be good.