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.
I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
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.
the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.
Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.
And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
