1,417 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walls and burning gardens—finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run.

A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life.

‎"I just think of people,” she continued, “whether they seem right where they are and fit into the picture. I don’t mind if they don’t do anything. I don’t see why they should; in fact it always astonishes me when anybody does anything.” “You don’t want to do anything?” “I want to sleep

I wish I had done everything on earth with you

So the men did, and they died.

It's rotten that every bit of real love in the world is ninety-nine percent passion and one little soupcon of jealousy

Anyhow, he gives large parties,” said Jordan, changing the subject with an urbane distaste for the concrete. “And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

„Îmi plac petrecerile mari. Sunt atât de intime. La petrecerile mici n-ai loc de intimitate.

Ho sempre pensato che fino ai diciotto anni, niente importi», disse Mary. «È vero», concordò Abe. «E dopo è uguale».