You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
And it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I'm restless. My whole generation is restless. I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy… — 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
She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he… — 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… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich. — 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
