F. Scott Fitzgerald — Quotes from Author's Books

I never care what I do, so I always have a good time.

The best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

A bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April.

But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

'Summer has no day,' she said. 'We can't possibly have a summer love.'

It was all very careless and confused.
They were careless peoples, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…

“Some one can help me.”
“Maybe so. You can help yourself most."

One moment of magical encounter, would blot out those five years of unwavering devotion.

“You know, you’re a little complicated after all.”
“Oh no,” she assured him hastily. “No, I’m not really—I’m just a— I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.”

That’s going to be your trouble—judgment about yourself.

They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

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.