Quotes about F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.

then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses.

They're a rotten lot, I shouted, across the lawn. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

He says unloved women have no biographies—they have histories. Anthony laughed again. Surely

Her eyes in the half-light suggested night and violets, and for a moment he stirred again to that half-forgotten remoteness of the afternoon.

I was promoted to be a major, and every Allied government gave me a decoration—even Montenegro, little Montenegro down on the Adriatic Sea!

The lights of many battleships drifting like water jewels upon the dark Hudson...

I'll tell you God's truth." His right hand suddenly ordered divine retribution to stand by.

Apostasy implies an absolute damnation only on the supposition of a previous perfect faith. Does that fix it?

To hold a man a woman has to appeal to the worst in him. This sentence was the thesis of most of his bad nights, of which he felt this was to be one. His mind had already started to play variations on the subject. Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush - these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment for the loss of his youth - bitter calomel under the thin sugar of love's exaltation.