F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

And then, one fairy night, May became June.

Believe me, I may be a bit blasé, but I can still get any man I want.

I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.