“Most of the remaining women were now having fights with men said to be their husbands.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… . — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Remember in all society nine girls out of ten marry for money and nine men out of ten are fools.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Spoken by Myrtle: " she smiled slowly, walking through her husband. Spoken by Jordan: "large parties are so intimate.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The voluptuous chords of the wedding march done in blasphemous syncopation issued in a delirious blend from the trombones and saxophones--and” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven-a national… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“After marriage came elation, and then, gradually, the growth of weariness. Responsibility descended upon Merlin, the responsibility of making his thirty dollars… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Unlike lovers they possessed no past; unlike man and wife, they possessed no future; yet up to in this morning Nicole had… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“It was a marriage of love. He was sufficiently spoiled to be charming; she was ingenuous enough to be irresistible. Like two… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“To this husband of hers she made the last concession of married life, which is more complete, more irrevocable, than the first—she… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Working-girls, in pairs and groups and swarms, loitered by these windows, choosing their future boudoirs from some resplendent display which included even… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I mean the women who, without any of the prerogatives of youth and beauty, demand continual slavery from their men…They sit back… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He came back from France when Tom and Daisy were still on their wedding trip, and made a miserable but irresistible journey… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“It seems he had some naïve conception of a woman 'fit to be his wife,' a particular conception that I used to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“There are times when you almost tell the harmless old lady next door what you really think of her face—that it ought… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“oh, why am I a girl? Why am I not a stupid—? Look at you; you’re stupider than I am, not much,… — 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
“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
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
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
I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
“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
“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
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
“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
What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write -… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
“The latter was considered a good fellow and a fine leader, until a year later, when he disappeared with a mess fund of eleven… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
“It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share
