The past--the wild charge at the head of his men up San Juan Hill; the first years of his marriage when he… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I don't like girls in the daytime,' he said shortly, and then thinking this a bit abrupt, he added: 'But I like… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The early twenties when we drank wood alcohol and every day in every way grew better and better, and there was a… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There used to be two kinds of kisses: First when girls were kissed and deserted; second, when they were engaged. Now there's… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Another dawn flung itself across the river; a belated taxi hurried along the street, its lamps still shining like burning eyes in a face… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“She plucked a twig and broke it, but she found no spring in it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills but getting few myself except those I read into men… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
![“There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people…” quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/38d/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_actors_there-s-a-writer-for-you-he-said-knows-e_438126.jpg)
![“I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. [- Nick Carroway]” quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ae4/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_behinds_i-thought-of-gatsby-s-wonder-when-he-fir_825426.jpg)
