1,417 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

I hadn't the faintest idea what 'this matter' was, but I was more annoyed than interested.

Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.

I'm looking forward tomorrow to a peaceful Sunday spent in bed with Churchill's 'Life Of Marlborough'. Funny that he should be Prime Minister at last.

Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.

This is worse than a calamity,” he said dryly. “It's getting to be a nuisance.

A pause; it endured horribly.

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

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.

A squalid phantasmagoria of breath