Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You've got an awfully kissable mouth.”

“I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.”

“It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.”

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”

“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”

“Ive been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”

“I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.”

“Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmonious...”

“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.”

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

“A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”

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

“For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.”

“Theyre a rotten crowd, I shouted across the lawn. Youre worth the whole damn bunch put together.”

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

“Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement --discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.”

“Now, Max, I have told you many times that you are my publisher, and permanently, as far as one can fling about the word in this too mutable world....The idea of leaving you has never for one single...”

“Let us learn how to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead' he suggested, 'After that my own rule is to let everything alone'.”

“Theres a writer for you, he said. Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing. [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writersbecause if you ask a writer...”

“I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth...”