Heart Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She thought I knew a lot because I knew different things from her”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

America is a willingness of the heart.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

She knew few words and believed in none.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He knew that Daisy was extraordinary, but he didn't realize just how extraordinary a 'nice' girl could be.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

There's so much spring in the air- there's so much lazy sweetness in your heart.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.

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“But the rest offended her - and inarguably, because it wasn't a gesture but an emotion.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the walls.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He felt that if he had a love he would have hung her picture just facing the tub so that, lost in…

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“She was appalled by West Egg’s raw vigour that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that eroded…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

“Saying good-by, Dick was aware of Elsie Speers' full charm, aware that she meant rather more to him than merely a last…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“she knew that for her the greatest sin now and in the future was to delude herself. It had been a long…

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“This was because she knew few words and believed in none, and in the world she was rather silent, contributing just her…

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In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was…

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“she took all the things of life for hers to choose from and apportion, as though she were continually picking out presents…

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His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this…

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There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory;…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's…

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For years afterwards when Amory thought of Eleanor he seemed still to hear the wind sobbing around him and sending little chills…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation-with every reason to throw my mind and…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She walked rather quickly; she liked to be active, though at times she gave an impression of repose that was at once…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be…

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The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She had achieved the elusiveness that gives hidden significance to the least significant remarks.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald