1,417 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream

Cada persona se cree dueña de al menos una de las virtudes cardinales, y ésta era la mía: soy una de las pocas personas honestas que conozco.

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

You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.

A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up towards the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-coloured rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.

We’re going to play football and nothing but football. If you don’t want to play football, you can’t play at all.

Astenersi dal giudicare implica un’infinita speranza.

Durante il fragoroso decollo Dick si sentì intorpidito, rendendosi conto di quanto fosse stanco. Un’enorme persuasiva tranquillità s’impossessò di lui, e lasciò la malattia ai malati, il rumore ai motori, la direzione ai piloti.

I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth...