Quotes from F Scott Fitzgerald

I'm more beautiful than anybody else," she said brokenly, "why can't I be happy?

You are mysterious. I love you. You're beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that's the rarest known combination.

He took down his drink as if it were a drop in the bottom of a glass.

You're not sentimental?' 'No, I'm romantic-- a sentimental person thinks things will last-- a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. Sentiment is emotional.

I married the heroine of my stories.

I always watch for the longest day in the year and then I miss it.

She looked at me and laughed pointlessly. Then she flounced over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy, and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there.

I'm afraid I'm in love with you and that's not the best thing that could happen.

hat a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacings back and forth, its disastrous retreats! Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances. There are people who say that intelligence must have built the universe—why, intelligence never built a steam engine! Circumstances built a steam engine. Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances.

Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

Standing behind him, Michaelis saw with a shock that he was looking at the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg, which had just emerged, pale and enormous, from the dissolving night. "God sees everything," repeated Wilson.

And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living.