f-scott-fitzgerald Quotes About ifs Page 2

“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. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea--if you gazed intently enough you could see them skip from wave tip to wave tip until they joined a broad collar of golden coin that was collecting half a mile out and would eventually be a dazzling sunset.”

Source: The Offshore Pirate: Short Story

“The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.”

Ifs Mean Long Father Son West Phrases Islands Eggs Conception Vulgar Platonic Long Island Great Gatsby Gatsby Great Gatsby Important Great Gatsby Nick Great Gatsby American Dream

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go”

Ifs Want

Book:Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi

Source: Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi

“It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and beauty, and I want its stairs to creak as if to the footsteps of women with hoop skirts and men in boots and spurs. But they've made it into a blondined, rouged-up old woman of sixty.”

Ifs Men Want Looks Made Moments Past House Youth Made It Boots Sixty Stairs Footsteps Skirts Spurs Old Woman

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“we both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was something that made us require more for happiness. I didn't know what I wanted”

Ifs Knows Made Wanted Corners

Book:Flappers and Philosophers

Source: Flappers and Philosophers

“The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised.”

Ifs Giving Long Made Next Memories Afternoon Next Day Parting Tranquil

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.”

Ifs Laughing Ought Make You Happy

Book:Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi

Source: Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi

“but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.”

Ifs Body Nerves Vitality Myrtle

Book:The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more

Source: The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more

“They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.”

Ifs World

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.”

Ifs Care Drink Don't Care I Don't Care Kill Me Champagne

Book:The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more

Source: The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more

“Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but then again, if I had been sober the times probably wouldn't have been worth remembering.”

Ifs Has Beens Said Sometimes Remember Wish Cold Stones Beer Good Times Sober Remembers Everything Stone Cold

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.”

Ifs Running Asks Fashion Drinking Ties Gin

Book:The Crack-up

Source: The Crack-up

“To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying to dig out the essential truth, the essential justice. As a first premise you have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without the conscience, you are just one of many thousands of journalists.”