Quotes About Society

Remember in all society nine girls out of ten marry for money and nine men out of ten are fools.

some of the boys she went with in Baltimore were terrible speeds and came to dances in states of artificial stimulation;

In the foreground four solemn men in dress suits are walking along the sidewalk with a stretcher on which lies a drunken woman in a white evening dress. Her hand, which dangles over the side, sparkles cold with jewels. Gravely the men turn in at a house - the wrong house. But no one knows the woman's name, and no one cares.

Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white.

Then there was a boom as Tom Buchanan shut the rear windows and the caught wind died out about the room, and the curtains and the rugs and the two young women ballooned slowly to the floor.

Os americanos], conquanto se mostrem dispostos, e até ansiosos, por ser escravos, sempre se recusaram, obstinadamente, a ser camponeses.

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that's the idea you can count me out.

Remarkable that a person can comprehend so little and yet live in such a complex civilization.

He doesn't want any trouble with ANYbody.' 'Who doesn't?' I inquired. 'Gatsby. Somebody told me——

If one can't be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.

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

They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.

Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for its teachings.

Either you think - or else others have to think for you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

El sentido fundamental de la buena educación es inequitativamente repartido al nacer.

The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap.

Their point of resemblance to each other and their difference from so many American women lay in the fact that they were all happy to exist in a man's world - they preserved their individuality through men and not by opposition to them.

You were brought up to work--not especially to marry. Now you've found your first nut to crack and it's a good nut--go ahead and put whatever happens down to experience. Wound yourself or him-- whatever happens it can't spoil you because economically you're a boy, not a girl.

I'm glad it's a girl. I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

It occurred to him that all strongly accentuated classes, such as the military, divided men into two kinds: their own kind—and those without.

Anyhow he gives large parties,' said Jordan, changing the subject with an urbane distaste for the concrete. 'And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy.