The-great-gatsby Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald Download Open image ““He took down his drink as if it were a drop in the bottom of a glass.”” — F. Scott Fitzgerald ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare The-great-gatsby
“For he was drinking too much. Not uncontrollably nor offensively, but still he seldom seemed to have a glass out of his hand.” — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
“doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty... drink it and get on with your life.” — Catherine Goldhammer Copy Share Image
“He looked as if he had been beaten to death with a wine bottle, but by doing it with the contents of the bottle.” — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“He wouldn't call a glass of water half full or half empty; he'd assume it was poisoned and run away. ” — Michael Reisman Copy Share Image
“He wanted one drink, and understood precisely why he wasn't going to have one. One drink ended up arriving in a dozen glasses.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“He had emptied the bright goblet of romance; at a single gulp he had emptied it. The glass of it lay scattered on the… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“Some people see the glass as half-empty, while others see it as half-full. But Jones stares at it and tries to figure out who… — Chris Kuzneski Copy Share Image
“No, he didn’t drink because he’d seen every kind of reason for diving into a bottle, seen them up close and personal. But he’d… — Eliza Maxwell Copy Share Image
“He downs the contents of his glass in a single gulp and, looking at Simon, adds: “This is as amusing as a novel.” — Laurent Binet Copy Share Image
“He was a glass half full kind of person and she was...what? The glass is going to break before you can even pour kind… — Erin McCarthy Copy Share Image
“You looked ridiculous walking around the city carrying an empty wineglass. I don't care to be associated with a drunk. Particularly one who damages… — Danielle L. Jensen 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
“The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world.” — Helen Gardner Copy Share Image
“He broke off and began to walk u and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favors and crushed flowers.” — 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 figure in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Through this twilight universe Daisy began to move again with the season; suddenly she was again keeping half a dozen dates a day with… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He smiled understandingly-much more than understanding. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may… — F.Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Something in his leisurely move- ments and the secure position of his feet upon the lawn suggested that it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come… — Francis Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There's green eyes in my eyes And a lover on my mind And I sing from the piano Tear my yellow dress and Cry… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
“Standing behind him, Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, which had just emerged,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“They saw me. Milton's smile curled off his face like unsticky tape. And I knew immediately, I was a boy band, a boondoggle, born… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
