Quotes about Fitzgerald
Collis, unaware that he was without a wedding garment, heralded his arrival with: I reckon I'm late--the beyed has flown.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The lights of many battleships drifting like water jewels upon the dark Hudson...
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Sometimes I wish I'd been an Englishman; American life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I married the heroine of my stories.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
A delightful sense of being very young and free in a civilization that was very old and free.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that...
— F Scott Fitzgerald
But, of course, you've either got to amuse people or feed 'em or shock 'em. Marjorie had culled this from Oscar Wilde.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
They're a rotten lot, I shouted, across the lawn. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I'm romantic - a sentimental person thinks things will last - a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
He says unloved women have no biographies—they have histories. Anthony laughed again. Surely
— F Scott Fitzgerald