F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

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

"An Oxford man!"

"And I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."

"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

"Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization."

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us."

"Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn"

"God sees everything"

"He was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with that resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly American"

"Her voice is full of money"

"I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time."

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

"I did love him once—but I loved you too."

"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."

"James Gatz—that was really, or at least legally, his name."

"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."

"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."

"My own house was an eyesore, but it was a small eyesore"

"Old Sport"

"So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight."

"Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once."

"The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic—their irises are one yard high"

"Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair"

"This fella's a regular Belasco."

"This is a valley of ashes"

"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."

"You can't live forever; you can't live forever."

"You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."