Quotes of Francis Scott Fitzgerald - somelinesforyou

“ un de ces hommes qui atteignent un tel degré d’excellence à vingt et un ans, dans un domaine par ailleurs limité, que tout, après cela, ne peut avoir qu’un goût de défaite. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves — that's the truth. We have two or three great moving experiences in our lives — experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed — for as the Spanish siesta. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ There used to be two kinds of kisses. First when girls were kissed and deserted; second, when they were engaged. Now there's a third kind, where the man is kissed and deserted. If Mr. Jones of the nineties bragged he'd kissed a girl, everyone knew he was through with her… ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ There never was a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people, if he's any good. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves — that's the truth. We have two or three great moving experiences in our lives — experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ See that little stream, we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a whole month tot walk to it, a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million bloody rugs. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10, 000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ See that little stream, we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a whole month tot walk to it, a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million bloody rugs. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves — that's the truth. We have two or three great moving experiences in our lives — experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10, 000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald
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