"Most people hew the battlements of life from……" — Zelda Fitzgerald
"Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes."
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Zelda Fitzgerald
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61 Quotes by Zelda Fitzgerald
Zelda Fitzgerald has 61 quotes on this site.
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Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if…
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Oh, the secret life of man and woman--dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were…
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It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously…
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Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning…
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Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with…
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Youth doesn't need friends -- it only needs crowds.
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Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let's think only of today, and not worry about…
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Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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Spinach and champagne. Going back to the kitchens at the old Waldorf. Dancing on the kitchen tables, wearing the chef's…
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The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a…
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Mr. Fitzgerald-I believe that is how he spells his name-seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow - So Growl By doing what is right.
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More Battlements Quotes
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It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that…
— John Owen
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Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns, And as the portal opens to receive me, A voice in hollow…
— Ann Radcliffe
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The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments,…
— John Owen
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Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees,…
— John Milton
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With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.
— William Wordsworth
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What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea-coasts, our army…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not ravish'd yet, Lo! peak on peak in stairways set- In stepping stairs…
— Joaquin Miller
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The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of…
— Bill Vaughan
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Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in…
— Bram Stoker
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From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle…
— Cornelia Funke
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The Stars. Jared slept beneath them, uneasy in the rustling leaves. From the battlements Finn gazed up at them, seeing…
— Catherine Fisher
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And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the…
— Emma Donoghue
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