1,417 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything…Sophisticated — God, I’m sophisticated! (Daisy)

It is the custom to look back on ourselves of the boom days with a disapproval that approaches horror...But it had its virtues, that old boom: Life was a great deal larger and gayer for most people, and the stampede to the Spartan virtues in times of war and famine shouldn't make us too dizzy to remember its hilarious glory.

And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back ceaslessly into rewrites.

forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath

I returned rather feebly to the subject of her daughter. 'I suppose she talks, she eats, and everything.

Involuntarily I glanced seaward and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby, he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.

The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.

Não há fogo nem frescura, por muito grandes que sejam, capazes de competir com os fantasmas que, no seu íntimo, um homem consegue armazenar.

Almost any exhibition of complete self-sufficiency draws a stunned tribute from me.