Quotes from F Scott Fitzgerald

All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase—'I love you.

You were brought up to work — not especially to marry. Now you've found your first nut to crack and it's a good nut — go ahead and put whatever happens down to experience. Wound yourself or him — whatever happens it can't spoil you because economically you're a boy, not a girl.

Well, I've had a very bad time, Nick, and I'm pretty cynical about everything.

Well, there I was, 'way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care.

She danced exceptionally well, drew cleverly but hastily, and had a startling facility with words, which she used only in love letters.

He put his arms around her, enclosing her completely as if he didn't want even the intangible to escape.

But, of course, you've either got to amuse people or feed 'em or shock 'em. Marjorie had culled this from Oscar Wilde.

And I had the high intention of reading many other books besides. I was rather literary in college — one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the "Yale News."— and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man." This isn't just an epigram — life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

Then the door opened and she came into the room - and it was as though everything in it suddenly blurred before his eyes. He had not remembered how beautiful she was, and he felt his face grow pale and his voice diminish to a poor sigh in his throat.

It's just a crazy old thing. I just slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like.

I'm thirty,' I said. 'I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor.

Wann immer du an jemandem etwas auszusetzen hast, sagte er, vergiss nicht, dass nicht alle auf dieser Welt einen so leichten Start hatten wie du.