1,417 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.

It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

You Know I’m Old In Some Ways, In Others Well I’m Just A Little Girl, I Like Sunshine, Pretty Things, Cheerfulness & I Dread Responsibility ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ Completely Represent Me I'm The Butterfly Spirit

He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about...

What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink.

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

She seems hopeful and normally hungry for life — even rather romantic.

They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.

New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.