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 Copy Share Image
Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy… — 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’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow.… — 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
Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
No," interrupted Marcia emphatically. "And you're a sweet boy. Come here and kiss me." Horace stopped quickly in front of her. "Why… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Progress was a labyrinth ... people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it ... the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro’s troubled history and sympathized with… — 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
