Top 100 Fitzgerald Scott Quotes
#1. I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswire across his character and disposition and general outlook. With some men it's secret and we never know it's there until they strike us in the dark one night.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#2. '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
#3. These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire - I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#4. Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread and salt, on every inch of flesh and spirit.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#5. He was handsome then if never before, bound for one of those immortal moments which come so radiantly that their remembered light is enough to see by for years.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#6. You are bound to go up and down, just as I did in my youth, but do keep your clarity of mind, and if fools or sages dare to criticise don't blame yourself too much.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#8. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#9. Women didn't come into men's rooms and sink into men's Humes. Women brought laundry and took your seat in the street-car and married you later on when you were old enough to know fetters.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#10. I'd rather keep it as a beautiful memory
tucked away in my heart.' 'Yes, women can do that
but not men. I'd remember always, not the beauty of it while it lasted, but just the bitterness, the long bitterness.' 'Don't!
F Scott Fitzgerald
#11. I can't exactly describe how I feel but it's not quite right. And it leaves me cold.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#12. After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#13. Her life was the significant pause between two glances in a mirror." ( paraphrased from The Beautiful and Damned")
F Scott Fitzgerald
#14. I can do the one hundred things beyond the next thing, but I stub my toe on that,
F Scott Fitzgerald
#15. The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
F Scott Fitzgerald
#16. What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?
F Scott Fitzgerald
#17. Your photograph is all I have: it is with me from the morning when I wake up with a frantic half dream about you to the last moment when I think of you and of death at night.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#18. Oh, I'll stay in the East, don't you worry," he said, glancing at Daisy and then back at me, as if he were alert for something more. "I'd be a God damned fool to live anywhere else.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#19. don't understand why people think that every young man ought to go down-town and work ten hours a day for the best twenty years of his life at dull, unimaginative work,
F Scott Fitzgerald
#20. I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#21. Into the dark, smoky restaurant, smelling of rich raw foods on the buffet, slid Nicole's sky-blue suit like a stray segment of the weather outside.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#22. He felt a discrepancy between the growing luxury in which the Divers lived & the need for display which apparently went along with it,
F Scott Fitzgerald
#24. Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#25. At both ends of life man needed nourishment: a breast - a shrine. Something to lay himself beside when no one wanted him further, and shoot a bullet into his head.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#26. He was intensely ritualistic, startlingly dramatic, loved the idea of God enough to be a celibate, and rather liked his neighbour.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#27. Now you've a clean start ... you've brushed three or four ornaments down, and in a fit of pique knocked off the rest of them. The thing now is to collect some new ones, and the farther you look ahead in the collecting, the better, but remember, do the next thing.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#29. Some time before he introduced himself I'd got a strong impression that he was picking his words with care.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#30. Oh, sleep that dreams, and dream that never tires, press from the petals of the lotus flower something of this to keep, the essence of an hour.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#31. The diplomats were at their customary business of making the world safe for new wars.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#32. Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but then again, if I had been sober the times probably wouldn't have been worth remembering.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#33. In ten seconds he had completely lost his appetite and gained on hundred thousand dollars.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#34. They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another
F Scott Fitzgerald
#35. The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#37. It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#38. The sensuous heat of early afternoon made blinding freckles on the checkered luncheon cloth.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#39. I want to go to Princeton," said Amory. "I don't know why, but I think of all Harvard men as sissies, like I used to be, and all Yale men as wearing big blue sweaters and smoking pipes." Monsignor
F Scott Fitzgerald
#41. He had long been outside of the world of simple desires and their fulfillments, and he was inept and uncertain.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#42. They were both overwhelmed by the sudden flatness that comes over American travellers in quiet foreign places. No stimuli worked upon them, no voices called them from without, no fragments of their own thoughts came suddenly from the minds of others.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#43. Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#44. Whenever any of these new writers come up who are brilliant, I always realize that you have more talent and more skill than any of them;---but circumstances have prevented you from realizing upon the fact for a long time. [About F. Scott Fitzgerald]
Maxwell Perkins
#45. You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#47. Young men just don't drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#49. Just as Daisy's house had always seemed to him more mysterious and gay than other houses, so his idea of the city itself, even though she was gone from it, was pervaded with a melancholy beauty.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#51. The attitude of the city on his action was of no importance to him, not because he was going to leave the city, but because any outside attitude on the situation seemed superficial. He was completely indifferent to popular opinion.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#54. So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#56. It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#58. How about your favorite book?" "This Side of Paradise by From. Scott Fitzgerald." "Why?" "Because it was the last one I read.
Anonymous
#59. It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved
so easy to be loved
so hard to love.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#61. Dick walked beside her, feeling her unhappiness, and wanting to drink the rain that touched her cheek.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#62. Then Rosalind began popping into his mind again, and he found his lips forming her name over and over.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#64. Limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax. His family were enormously
F Scott Fitzgerald
#65. Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#66. I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past."
"Can't repeat the past? he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!
F Scott Fitzgerald
#67. Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#68. I've found my line- from now on this comes first. This is my immediate duty- without this I am nothing.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#69. The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#70. I slunk
off in the direction of the cocktail table - the only place in
the garden where a single man could linger without looking
purposeless and alone.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#71. He went three hundred yards up the slope to the other hotel, he engaged a room, and found himself washing without a memory of the intervening ten minutes, only a sort of drunken flush pierced with voices, unimportant voices that did not know how much he was loved.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#72. I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. [- Nick Carroway]
F Scott Fitzgerald
#73. We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#75. Tom and Daisy stared, with that peculiarly unreal feeling that accompanies the recognition of a hitherto ghostly celebrity of the movies.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#76. His voice promised that he would take care of her, and that a little later he would open up whole new worlds for her, unroll an endless succession of magnificent possibilities.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#79. He supposed many men meant no more than that when they said they were in love- not a wild submerge cd of soul, a dipping of all colors into an obscuring dye, such as his love for Nicile had been.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#80. It was too early in the morning for family patriotism."
-Cecelia Brady
F Scott Fitzgerald
#81. Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#82. She hated the beach, resented the places where she had played planet to Dick's sun.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#83. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#84. She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#86. 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
#87. Don't ever phone if you can possibly come yourself. Don't ever leave if you can stay.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#88. The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#89. I spent my Saturday nights in New York, because those gleaming, dazzling parties of his were with me so vividly that I could still hear the music and the laughter, faint and incessant, from his garden, and the cars going up and down his drive.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#90. He knew that to be careless in dress and manner required more confidence than to be careful.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#91. They talk as an English butler might after several years in a Chicago grand-opera company.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#94. Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#95. He was learning the rarity in a single life, of encountering true emotion.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#97. He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#98. These things excite me so,' she whispered. 'If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let me know and I'll be glad to arrange it for you. Just mention my name. Or present a green card.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#99. Happened that on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all. Their house was even more elaborate than
F Scott Fitzgerald
#100. Vich Deelish My heart is in the heart of my son And my life is in his life surely A man can be twice young In the life of his sons only.
F Scott Fitzgerald
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