More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.
Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go
Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.
To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.
Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
"A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
