Quotes from F Scott Fitzgerald
Sometimes I don't know whether Zelda and I are real or just characters in one of my novels.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
They talked aimlessly back and forth, each speaking for the other.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
He saw her before he saw anything else in the room.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
It was pleasant to drive back to the hotel in the late afternoon, above a sea as mysteriously colored as the agates and cornelians of childhood, green as green milk, blue as laundry water, wine dark.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
But magic must hurry on, and the lovers remain...
— F Scott Fitzgerald
What was it? Why won't you tell me? I don't want to break down your illusions. My dear man, I have no illusions about you. I mean illusions about yourself.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back ceaslessly into rewrites.
— F Scott Fitzgerald