Quotes from F Scott Fitzgerald

Amory selected a blade of grass and nibbled at it scientifically.

It eluded us then, but that's no matter —tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning——

I'm tres old and tres bored, Tom, said Amory one day, stretching himself at ease in the comfortable window-seat. He always felt most natural in a recumbent position.

He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her.

But the army - let me see - well, I discovered that physical courage depends to a great extent on the physical shape a man is in. I found that I was as brave as the next man - it used to worry me before.

Rosalind: Cecelia, darling, you don't know what a trial it is to be like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me. If I laugh hard from a front row in the theatre, the comedian plays to me for the rest of the evening. If I drop my voice, my eyes, my handkerchief at a dance, my partner calls me up on the phone every day for a week.

Why are all the exciting things so uncomfortable? Like fighting and exploring and skiing in Canada?

It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go by any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.

Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.

Though the Jazz Age continued, it became less and less of an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

There all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.