1,417 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

An idea ran backward and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.

I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made...

You don't write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say.

When a United States Senator after his election has to look up the principles of Marxism by which one-sixth of the world is governed it shows he's a pretty inadequate defender of his own system.

Into the dark, smoky restaurant, smelling of rich raw foods on the buffet, slid Nicole's sky-blue suit like a stray segment of the weather outside.

I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

With the awakening of his emotions, his first perception was a sense of futility, a dull ache at the utter grayness of his life.