Quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald

And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. 'I know myself,' he cried, 'But that is all.

Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him.

The rich get richer and the poor get—children.

Almost impersonally he was convinced that no woman he had ever met compared in any way with Gloria. She was deeply herself; she was immeasurably sincere—of these things he was certain. Beside her the two dozen schoolgirls and débutantes, young married women and waifs and strays whom he had known were so many females, in the word's most contemptuous sense, breeders and bearers, exuding still that faintly odorous atmosphere of the cave and the nursery.

The room rang full of her artificial laughter.

He was conscious of the print of her wet foot on a rug through the bathroom door.

Thirty - the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. But there was Jordan beside me who, unlike Daisy, was too wise ever to carry well-forgotten dreams from age to age. As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.

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

As for the well-known Amory, he would write immortal literature if he were sure enough about anything to risk telling any one else about it.

Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white.

I possess the most valuable experience, the experience of the race, for in spite of going to college I've managed to pick up a good education.

They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale - and yet they weren't unhappy either.

In the beer-halls and shop-windows were bright posters presenting the Swiss defending their frontiers in 1914

Then it was all true. I saw the skins of tigers flaming in his palace on the Grand Canal; I saw him opening a chest of rubies to ease, with their crimson-lighted depths, the gnawings of his broken heart.

It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound for the Champs-Elysees, strapped now into a long truck and simply shaking with laughter-like a lovely person in an undignified position yet confident none the less of being lovely.

unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought—frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or

founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on. When I came back from

There's a difference somewhere." Being a supreme egotist Ardita frequently

Her affairs had long shared such a sameness, that, as she dried out, they were more important for their conversational value than for themselves. Her emotions had their truest existence in the telling of them.

A man can be twice young in the life of his sons only.

Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made...

You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.

One autumn night, years before, they came to a place where the moonlight stopped and change was among the stars.