Top 25 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald of 757 - Page 7

good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

Gloves, Tender Is The Night, Manners

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Mean, Exercise, Men

Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fun, Book, Kissing

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2008). “Babylon Revisited: And Other Stories”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

I'm a cynical idealist.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Cynical, Idealist

F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (1995). “This Side of Paradise”, p.84, Cambridge University Press

He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Kissing, Arms, Lips

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Flappers and Philosophers”, p.210, Sheba Blake Publishing

Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Mean, Rose, Scent

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.148, Xist Publishing

Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Moving, Behind You, Lost

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.658, e-artnow

I used to build dreams about you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Dream, Hate, Used

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Flappers and Philosophers”, p.177, Sheba Blake Publishing

We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sunshine, Morrow

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.6, Xist Publishing

Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Past, Great Gatsby Important, Great Gatsby Gatsby

"The Great Gatsby". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925.

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Judgement, Matter, Infinite Hope

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1991). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Book, Mean, People

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “4 Books by F. Scott Fitzgerald”, p.490, eBookIt.com

And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Moving, Desire, Trying

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.411, e-artnow

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Found, Rules Of Life

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.1636, e-artnow

So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Stars, Listening, Tuning

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.85, Atlântico Press

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Simple, Confusion, Mind

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.136, Broadview Press

Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Flower, Wind, Lips

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.14, Xist Publishing

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Cute, Friendship, Men

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.106, e-artnow

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to 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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Family, Home, Skins

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (Fitzgerald’s Greatest Short Stories): A Collection of short stories from the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.185, e-artnow

There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Eye, Mirrors, People

She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Agony, Her Beauty, Glances

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.243, e-artnow

You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have not yet developed the tricks of interesting people on paper, when you have none of the technique which it takes time to learn. When, in short, you have only your emotions to sell.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Writing, Heart, People

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.611, Simon and Schuster

His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of four years before. Things that had been the merest commonplaces of his life then, deep sleep, the sense of beauty around him, all desire, had flown away and the gaps they left were filled only with the great listlessness of his disillusion.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Loneliness, Party, Sleep

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.278, e-artnow

When Eleanor's arm touched his he felt his hands grow cold with deadly fear lest he should lose the shadow brush with which his imagination was painting wonders of her. He watched her from the corners of his eyes as ever he did when he walked with her-- she was a feast and a folly and he wished it had been his destiny to sit forever on a haystack and see life through her green eyes.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Eye, Destiny, Hands

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.180, Xist Publishing