1,417 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

I hope something happens. I’m restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.

I’ve got an adjective that just fits you.

We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can’t. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism.

A squalid phantasmagoria of breath.

Happiness is the relief after extreme tension.

A man’s social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.

Everywhere we go and move on and change, something’s lost – something’s left behind. You can’t ever quite repeat anything, and I’ve been so yours, here –.

I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all – Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader’s mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.