Quotes from Zelda Fitzgerald

Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.

Oh, the secret life of man and woman--dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.

Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let's think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.

I've tried so many times to think of a new way to say it, and it's still I love you.

And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.

Death is the only real elegance.

Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?

Father said conflict develops the character

isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.