F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Life Quotes, Hero Quotes

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Life Quotes , Hero Quotes

This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Adults Quotes

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Witty Quotes , Mistake Quotes

Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Dust Quotes , Hands Quotes

Life cracked like ice!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Ice Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Girl Quotes , Moon Quotes

When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he rhymed her eyes with life and death: "Thru Time I'll save my love!" he said. . . yet Beauty vanished with his breath, and, with her lovers, she was dead. . . -Ever his wit and not her eyes, ever his art and not her hair: "Who'd learn a trick in rhyme, be wise and pause before his sonnet there". . . So all my words, however true, might sing you to a thousandth June, and no one ever know that you were Beauty for an afternoon.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Wise Quotes , Art Quotes

The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Two Quotes , Mind Quotes

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , One Day Quotes , Noble Quotes

Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Her Beauty Quotes , Rooms Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Dishonesty Quotes , Blame Quotes

New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Old Friends Quotes , New Friendship Quotes

Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered “Listen,” a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Eye Quotes , Gay Quotes

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Zero Quotes , Humanity Quotes

Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Life Quotes , Football Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Flower Quotes , Lips Quotes

The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Love Quotes , Kissing Quotes

my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Dark Quotes , Imagination Quotes

i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Boredom Quotes , Hatred Quotes