1,417 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

That's my theory: immediate electrocution of all ignorant and dirty people. I'm all for the criminals - give color to life. Trouble is if you started to punish ignorance you'd have to begin in the first families, then you could take up the moving-picture people, and finally Congress and the clergy.

Una mujer debe ser capaz de besar a un hombre hermosa y románticamente sin experimentar por ello el menor deseo de ser su esposa o su amante.

[About Ernest Hemingway] He’s a peach of a fellow and absolutely first-rate.

A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

I talk with the authority of failure.

The price for his intactness was incompleteness.

Can’t repeat the past?’ he cried incredulously. ‘Why ofcourse you can!’‘I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before,’ hesaid, nodding determinedly. ‘She’ll see.

A wafer of a moon was shining over Gatsby's house, making the night fine as before, and surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden. A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell.