Fitzgerald Gatsby Quotes

#1. Fitzgerald has charm. It's a silly word, but it's an exact word for me. I like 'The Great Gatsby' and it's sad, gay nostalgia.

Truman Capote

#2. Never miss a party ... good for the nerves
like celery.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer.

Azar Nafisi

#4. I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. Suddenly I wasn't thinking of Daisy or Gatsby anymore, but of this clean, hard, limited person, who dealt in universal skepticism, and who leaned back jauntily just within the circle of my arm.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. Movie directors who have filmed F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' believe it's a big book looming inside a small one, and they aren't altogether wrong.

Steve Erickson

#7. Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The Great Gatsby is an absurd story, whether considered as romance, melodrama, or plain record of New York high life.

L.P. Hartley

#8. Reading it now for the seventh or eighth time, I am more convinced than ever not merely that The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald's masterwork but that it is the American masterwork, the finest work of fiction by any of this country's writers.

Jonathan Yardley

#9. So my first impression, that he was a person of some undefined consequence, had gradually faded and he had become simply the proprietor of an elaborate road-house next door.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#10. It's Fitzgerald's thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent.

Maureen Corrigan

#11. I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#12. It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#13. I am asking Scribners to insert as a subtitle in everything after the eighth printing
THE SUN ALSO RISES (LIKE YOUR COCK IF YOU HAVE ONE)
A greater Gatsby
(Written with the friendship of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Prophet of THE JAZZ AGE)

Ernest Hemingway,

#14. Well, it's a fine book, and everybody ought to read it.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#15. I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.

F Scott Fitzgerald

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

F Scott Fitzgerald

#17. Bootleggers were romanticized by people like F. Scott Fitzgerald, for example. Gatsby is a bootlegger. And they were not thought of as evil criminals in the newspapers, either. There was a certain amount of affection for them.

Pete Hamill

#18. Anything can happen now that we've slid over this bridge, anything at all ...

F Scott Fitzgerald

#19. She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#20. My hair-- bob it!

F Scott Fitzgerald

#21. Take off that darn fur coat! ... Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#22. I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

F Scott Fitzgerald

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

F Scott Fitzgerald

#24. In my opinion, Fiction is a figment of our imagination & it causes us to dream but Reality taints dreams, and the F.scott Fitzgerald has clearly depicted this in The Great Gatsby.

Parul Wadhwa

#25. No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#26. I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#27. Something in his leisurely move- ments and the secure position of his feet upon the lawn suggested that it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to deter- mine what share was his of our local heavens.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#28. Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#29. My own rule is to let everything alone.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#30. Human sympathy has its limits.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#31. 'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever come out of the United States. Everything in the book moves as it should, in the manner of a piece by Bach or Mozart.

Frank Delaney