Top 25 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald of 757 - Page 30

She laughed with thrilling scorn. Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!

She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!

Sophisticated, Scorn, Thrilling

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.16, Atlântico Press

All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her; she would be just as strong without him.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Strong, Leaving, Would Be

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.1786, e-artnow

My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fun, Kissing

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.430, e-artnow

And Yale is November, crisp and energetic.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Yale, November, Energetic

F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (1995). “This Side of Paradise”, p.31, Cambridge University Press

Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it; he wanted no more than to drift and dream and enjoy a dozen new-found friendships through the April afternoons.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Dream, Spring, Ideas

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.161, e-artnow

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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Men, Steel, Trials

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.227, e-artnow

This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Moving, Men, Garden

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Book House (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.393, Book House

Progress was a labyrinth ... people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it ... the invisible king-the élan vital-the principle of evolution ... writing a book, starting a war, founding a school.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Kings, War, Book

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.291, e-artnow

Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and-we're dawdling along. My idea is that we've got to go very much faster.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life Changing, Ideas, Years

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.296, e-artnow

I'm restless. My whole generation is restless. I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer. Even if I had no talents I'd not be content to work ten years, condemned either to celibacy or a furtive indulgence, to give some man's son an automobile.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beautiful, Girl, Son

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.299, e-artnow

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

Heart, Ideas, Sturdy

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.63, Broadview Press

The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Desire, Sitting Down, Down And

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Beautiful and Damned”, p.8, Pelekanos Books

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Birthday, Children, Party

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.5, e-artnow

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Moving, Past, Vanishing

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2004). “The Complete Short Stories and Essays”, p.850, Simon and Schuster

This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea--if you gazed intently enough you could see them skip from wave tip to wave tip until they joined a broad collar of golden coin that was collecting half a mile out and would eventually be a dazzling sunset.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Dream, Children, Eye

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2014). “The Offshore Pirate: Short Story”, p.3, Harper Collins

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Education, Country, College

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Illustrated)”, p.4045, Delphi Classics

She was incurably dishonest.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.46, Atlântico Press

This is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding-- it's got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Girl, Dream, Eye

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “Flappers and Philosophers: American Literature”, p.16, VM eBooks

The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her body. She turned round and round in it, embracing it, wallowing in it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Hair, Water, Body

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.309, e-artnow

Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Gay, Baltimore, Polite

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, Judith Baughman (1994). “A Life in Letters”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

...for a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Dream, Glasses, People

smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Punctuation Marks, Long, Smoking

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2012). “Thank You for the Light”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Hands, Together, Used

For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Men, Lasts, Faces

The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)