The best Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

He looked at her the way all women wanted to be looked at by a man.

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.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

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

All right... I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

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

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

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

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Gatsby turned out all right in the end. It is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

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

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

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.