1,417 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

He found that the business of optimism was no mean task.

Courage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.

If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or magnificence.

Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows.

Her eyes appeared to regard him out of many thousand years: all emotion she might have felt, all words she might have uttered, would have seemed inadequate beside the adequacy of her silence, ineloquent against the eloquence of her beauty

I became bored - that was all. Boredom, which is another name and a frequent disguise for vitality, became the unconscious motive of all my acts.

… And, after all, an obsolete list. She was in love now, set for the eternal romance that was to be the synthesis of all romance, yet sad for these man and these moonlights and for the ‘thrills’ she had had – and the kisses. The past – her past, oh, what a joy! She had been exuberantly happy.

I wouldn’t ask too much of her,” I ventured. “You can’t repeat the past.”“Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!”He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.“I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before,” he said, nodding determinedly. “She’ll see.