Quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

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

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

He felt married to her, that was all.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty?one that everything afterward savors of anti?climax.

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

That's going to be your trouble — judgment about yourself.(Tender is the Night)

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.

It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as "cruelty.

unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories

I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.

To most women art is a form of scandal.