Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Writers aren't exactly people, they are a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.” — 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
It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before. — 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
Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo… — 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
“Some people, were born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning. Some have an ear for music. Some are… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder… — 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
I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes… — 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
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
“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
It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was… — 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
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’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
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
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
Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know… — 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
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
The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say,… — 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
Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng… — 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
“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
