76 Quotes About Fitzgerald

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

An ardent anti-Nazi, he was excited by the outbreak of World War II---which he had been predicting---and followed the war news closely. [On F. Scott Fitzgerald]

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-

Douăzeci și cinci e prea cinică și sofisticată; treizeci e numai bună pentru paloarea excesului de muncă; patruzeci e vârsta poveștilor lungi, care durează cît un trabuc fumat în întregime; șaizeci e... ah, șaizeci e prea aproape de șaptezeci; dar cincizeci e cu adevărat floarea vîrstei. O ador.

Încercăm să ne alegem mijloacele și apoi luăm ce putem – și ne mai și bucurăm.

We couldn't go on indefinitely being swept off our feet.

Won’t we be quite the pair? You with your bad heart, me with my bad head. Together, though, we might have something worthwhile.

The price for his intactness was incompleteness.

Don't worry," she says. "Ernest always attracted obsessives. You were only one of many. And secretly, sometimes, I think he was flattered. Nobody ever stalked Fitzgerald.