Quotes from F Scott Fitzgerald

For this is wisdom—to love and live,     To take what fate or the gods may give,     To ask no question, to make no prayer,     To kiss the lips and caress the hair,     Speed passion's ebb as we greet its flow,     To have and to hold, and, in time—let go.

there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race

I broke a date for him. To-day I feel I'd break anything for him, including the ten commandments and my neck.

But it was too late. He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

The grass is full of ghost to-night.' 'The whole campus is alive with them.

I returned rather feebly to the subject of her daughter. 'I suppose she talks, she eats, and everything.

the sensuous heat of early afternoon made blinding freckles on the checkered luncheon cloth.

the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody

All life was transmitted into terms of their love, all experience, all desires, all ambitions, were nullified - their senses of humour crawled into corners to sleep;

I talk with the authority of failure.

He used to think that he wanted to be goos, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.

I like these streets... I always feel as though it's a performance being staged for me; as though the second I've passed they'll all stop leaping and laughing and, instead grow very sad, remembering how poor they are, and retreat with bowed heads into their houses. You often get that effect abroad