Children Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The rich get richer and the poor get - children.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Weep not for me but for thy children.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get — children. In the meantime, In between time...

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Though the Jazz Age continued, it became less and less of an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She had magic in her pink palms and her cheeks lit to a lovely flame, like the thrilling flush of children after…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes.…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The idea of a slow approach to the luxury of leisure drove him wild. He was, of course, progressing toward it, but,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Young Anthony had one picture of his father and mother together—so often had it faced his eyes in childhood that it had…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It was pleasant to drive back to the hotel in the late afternoon, above a sea as mysteriously colored as the agates…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Here, Earth-born, over the lilt of the water, Lisping its music and bearing a burden of light, Bosoming day as a laughing…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Some men escape the grip. Maybe their wives have no social ambitions; maybe they've hit a sentence or two in a 'dangerous…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“What grubworms women are to crawl on their bellies through colorless marriages! Marriage was created not to be a background but to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You see, when you were little they kept sending me snap–shots of you, first as a baby and then as a child…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“From the night into his high-walled room there came, persistently, that evanescent and dissolving sound - something the city was tossing up…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the unclear voices of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald