Quotes about Fitzgerald
He says unloved women have no biographies—they have histories. Anthony laughed again. Surely
- 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
I was promoted to be a major, and every Allied government gave me a decoration—even Montenegro, little Montenegro down on the Adriatic Sea!
- F Scott 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
He desired her and, so far as her virginal emotions went, she contemplated a surrender with equanimity. Yet she knew she would forget him half an hour after she left him - like an actor kissed in a picture.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Standing in the station, with Paris in back of them, it seemed as if they were vicariously leaning a little over the ocean, already undergoing a sea-change, a shifting about of atoms to form the essential molecule of new people.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I feel sure we are the great coming nation—yet—and she sighed—I feel my life should have drowsed away close to an older, mellower civilization, a land of greens and autumnal browns—
- F Scott Fitzgerald
A delightful sense of being very young and free in a civilization that was very old and free.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The lights of many battleships drifting like water jewels upon the dark Hudson...
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I'll tell you God's truth." His right hand suddenly ordered divine retribution to stand by.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Sometimes I wish I'd been an Englishman; American life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy.
- 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