F. Scott Fitzgerald

A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.

The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

I was too absorbed to be responsive

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away.

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

I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

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

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

The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

The rich are different from us.

This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes.

This is perhaps the best feeling in the world. I love going to sleep at night and wondering what weird and wonderful dreams I'm going to have however I always prolong sleep as long as possible, immeasurably happy simply listening to the sound of my fiancees breathing and feeling his arms around me. It's when you fall in love with these little things that you know you're truly in love.