F. Scott Fitzgerald Great Quotations

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.

The rich get richer and the poor get - children.

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.

...I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires....

So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

I can't describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for a while that she'd throw me over, but she didn't, because she was in love with me too. She thought I knew a lot beacause I knew different things from her....Well, there I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care. What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do? Gatsby

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.

It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.