1,417 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.

The sea, he thought, had treasured its memories deeper than the faithless land.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

We’ll meet you on some corner. I’ll be the man smoking two cigarettes.

the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed on the stove nor shuffled with the other plates in the dishpan; it will not be brought out for company but it will do to hold crackers late at night or to go into the ice-box with the left overs.

Almost painfully he took his eyes from her.

He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.