Quotes from F Scott Fitzgerald

If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.

It is youth's felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future

I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I...

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

that voice was a deathless song.

She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound for the Champs Elysees, strapped now into a long truck and simply shaking with laughter - like a lovely person in an undignified position yet confident none the less of being lovely. Looking at it with fascination, Rosemary identified herself with it, and laughed cheerfully with it, and everything all at once seemed gorgeous.

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.

When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.

I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.