1,417 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . And then one fine morning—So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

After all, in the very casualness of Gatsby's party there were romantic possibilities totally absent from her world.

Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.

Two out of every three professional officers considered that wars were made for armies and not armies for wars.

People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

American men,” said Nancy gravely, “don’t know how to drink.”“What?” Jim was startled.“In fact,” she went on carelessly, “they don’t know how to do anything very well. The one thing I regret in my life is that I wasn’t born in England.”“In England?”“Yes. It’s the one regret of my life that I wasn’t.

He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.

Art is meaningless in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.