1,417 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

She hurried into a new spring evening dress of the frailest fairy blue. In the excitement of seeing herself in it, it seemed as if she had shed the old skin of winter and emerged a shining chrysalis with no stain; and going downstairs her feet fell softly just off the beat of the music from below. It was a tune from a play she had seen a week ago in New York, a tune with a future...

After the sureties of youth there sets in a period of intense and intolerable complexity.

One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

He got the reputation for being a good musician because he drank so much that his friends had to explain him away somehow--

Their eyes met, locked, became wistful, and dreamy and beautiful.

Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for its teachings.

- Я, видишь ли, думаю, что всё равно на свете ничего хорошего нет... И все так думают - даже самые умные, самые передовые люди. А я не только думаю, я знаю. Ведь я везде побывала, всё видела, всё попробовала... Многоопытная и разочарованная, вот я какая.Дэйзи Бьюкэнэн - Нику Кэррэвэю"Великий Гэтсби

If the bonus army conquered Washington the lawyer had a boat hidden in the Sacramento River, and he was going to row upstream for a few months and then come back “because they always needed lawyers after a revolution to straighten out all the legal side.

And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.