Quotes About Society

F. Scott Fitzgerald

When a girl comes out, she needs all the attention.

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 said, '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.

Do all the Americans in Paris just shoot at each other all the time?

Parfait, ai-je dit, je suis contente que ce soit une fille. J'espère qu'elle sera idiote. Pour une fille, c'est la meilleure place à tenir sur terre — celle d'une ravissante petite idiote.

that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

American men," said Nancy gravely, "don't know how to drink." "What?" Jim was startled. "In fact," she went on carelessly, "they don't know how to do anything very well. The one thing I regret in my life is that I wasn't born in England." "In England?" "Yes. It's the one regret of my life that I wasn't.

I've just finished a book of his, 'The Picture of Dorian Gray,' and I certainly wish you'd read it. You'd like

None of the Victorian mothers--and most of the mothers were Victorian--had any idea how casually their daughters were accustomed to be kissed.

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

you can lope about and get bored and then lope somewhere else, and you can play around with girls without being involved in meshes of sentiment, and you can do anything and be justified—and here am I with the brains to do everything, yet tied to the sinking ship of future matrimony. If I were born a hundred years from now, well and good, but now what's in store for me—I have to marry, that goes without saying.

The 'belle' had become the 'flirt', the 'flirt' had become the 'baby vamp'.

Tom et Daisy étaient deux êtres parfaitement insouciants — ils cassaient les objets, ils cassaient les humains, puis ils s'abritaient derrière leur argent, ou leur extrême insouciance, ou je-ne-sais-quoi qui les tenait ensemble, et ils laissent à d'autres le soin de nettoyer et de balayer les débris.

wherever people played polo and were rich together.

DoÄŸum yapal? bir saat bile olmam??t?. Tom'un nerede olduÄŸunu Tanr? bilir. Narkozdan ç?k?nca yoÄŸun bir terkedilmiÅŸlik hissi içimi kaplad? ve hastabak?c?ya k?z m? oÄŸlan m? diye sordum. K?z olduÄŸunu öÄŸrenince de, arkam? döndüm ve aÄŸlad?m pekala dedim kendime k?z olduÄŸuna sevindim. Umar?m aptal olur. Çünkü bu dünyada bir k?z için en iyisi aptal ve güzel olmak.

Mi fa piacere che sia femmina. E spero che sarà una stupida... è la cosa migliore per una bambina, a questo mondo, una bella e piccola stupida.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry

E remarcabil c? o fiin?? uman? poate s? înÈ›eleag? atît de puÈ›in, deÈ™i tr?ieÈ™te într-o civilizaÈ›ie atît de complex?.

Medeniyet yok oluyor diye ba??rd? Tom öfkeyle, Ben art?k bu konuda karamsar?m. Åžu Goddard denen adam?n yazd??? The Rise of the Coloured Empires adl? kitab? okudun mu?

All right,' I said, '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.

Amerikal?lar?n ara s?ra toprak kölesi olmay? istedikleri olur, ama köylü s?n?f?ndan olmaya kar?? hep direnmiÅŸlerdir.

one thing's sure and nothings' surer the rich get richer and the poor get -children In the meantime In between time