Quotes from F Scott Fitzgerald
It eluded us then, but that's no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I've got an adjective that just fits you.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.
- F Scott Fitzgerald