Quotes from F Scott Fitzgerald

It's essentially cleaner to be corrupt and rich than it is to be innocent and poor.

I'm romantic - a sentimental person thinks things will last - a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances.

Her face, the face of a saint, a viking Madonna, shone through the faint motes that snowed across the candlelight, drew down its flush from the wine-colored lanterns in the pine. She was still as still.

We drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

he told me all the things he liked to THINK he thought in the misty past.

It was wearisome to contemplate that animate protoplasm, reasonable by courtesy only, shut up in a car by an incomprehensible civilization, taken somewhere, to do a vague something without aim or significance or consequence.

They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another

Wilson? He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.

What was the promise with the head sick?

You're a rotten driver, I protested. Either you ought to be more careful, or you oughtn't drive at all. I am careful. No you're not. Well, other people are, she said lightly. What's that got to do with it? They'll keep out of my way, she insisted. It takes two to make an accident.

It is the most opulent, most gorgeous land on earth—a land whose wisest are but little wiser than its dullest; a land where the rulers have minds like little children and the law-givers believe in Santa Claus; where ugly women control strong men——