F. Scott Fitzgerald > Quotes

“Do all the Americans in Paris just shoot at each other all the time?”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“...selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Ακόμα και τούτο το απόγευμα θα πρέπει να υπήρξαν στιγμές που η Νταίζυ δεν ανταποκρινόταν στα όνειρά του – όχι από δικό της λάθος, αλλά εξαιτίας της τεράστιας δύναμης της χίμαιράς του. Είχε πάει πέρα από κείνην, πέρα από το καθετί. Είχε ριχτεί σε αυτή τη χίμαιρα μ’ ένα δημιουργικό πάθος, εμπλουτίζοντάς τη συνεχώς, στολίζοντάς τη με κάθε χρωματιστό φτερό που έπεφτε στο διάβα του. Καμιά φωτιά, καμιά παγωνιά δεν θα μπορούσε να συγκριθεί με όσα κρύβει ένας άντρας στη στοιχειωμένη του καρδιά.”
― Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby

“The question of who is, and who is not, "crazy" is at the heart of "Nightmare" — how sanity is defined, and how much depends upon who is doing the defining.

"Nightmare" was rejected by College Humor, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, and the Saturday Evening Post, all magazines that had regularly and eagerly published Fitzgerald's work.... in 1932, this was not what readers expected under the byline "F. Scott Fitzgerald," and therefore not what editors wanted.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, I'd Die for You and Other Lost Stories

“En cuanto la voz se apagó y dejó de exigirme atención y confianza, tuve conciencia de la insinceridad básica de todo lo que había dicho. Y me sentí incómodo, como sí toda la velada hubiera sido una trampa para extraer de mí una contribución sentimental. Esperé y, en efecto, al momento me miró con una espléndida sonrisa de satisfacción, como si me hubiera confesado su pertenencia a una distinguida sociedad secreta a la que tanto ella como Tom estaban afiliados.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, El Gran Gastby

“Каждую ночь его воображение ткало все новые и новые узоры, пока сон не брал его в свои опустошающие объятия, посреди какой-нибудь особо увлекательной мечты.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Mrs. Gilbert added flavor to his adventure by being impressed with his courage in braving the harsh air.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Ninguna cantidad de fuego o frescura puede desafiar lo que un hombre puede almacenar en los fantasmas de su corazón.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Naturalmente non ti dispiace andar via. Per quelli come noi, la casa è sempre il posto dove non siamo.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“What are you looking at?"
"I was just thinking that you're going to be rather happy."
Nicole was frightened: "Am I? All right--things couldn't be worse than they have been.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Bir an ona aşıkmışım gibi hissettim. Ama ben ölçüp tartan, uzun uzun düşünen, kuralları olan biriyim, bu da arzularımı frenlememi sağlar.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“The three young men nodded; Bloeckman looked casually about him, his eyes resting critically on the ceiling and then passing lower. His expression combined that of a Middle-Western farmer appraising his wheat-crop and that of an actor wondering whether he is observed - the public manner of all good Americans.”
― Scott F. Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“فارتدِ عندئذ قبعتك الذهبية، إذا كان هذا سيحرك قلبها؛ وإذا كان في وسعك أن تثب عاليًا، فاقفز من أجلها أيضًا، حتی تصیح بك: ((حبیبي يا ذا القبعة الذهبية، حبيبي يا ذا الوثبة العالية، لا بد أن أنالك !)). ((توماس بارك دانفیلییه)) المحتويات الفصل الأول الفصل الثاني الفصل الثالث الفصل الرابع الفصل الخامس الفصل السادس الفصل السابع الفصل الثامن”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, ‫جاتسبي العظيم ‬

“Of Amory’s attempted sacrifice had been born merely the full realization of his disillusion, but of Monsignor’s funeral was born the romantic elf who was to enter the labyrinth with him.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Gatsby gửi niềm tin của mình vào cái đốm sáng xanh, cái tương lai làm đê mê lòng người mỗi năm một lùi ra xa chúng ta hơn. Nó đã tuột khỏi tay chúng ta rồi, nhưng có sao! – ngày mai chúng ta sẽ dấn bước nhanh hơn, sẽ vươn tay ra dài hơn...Và một buổi sáng đẹp trời...Chúng ta cứ thế cố dấn lên, như những chiếc thuyền cố đi ngược dòng nước không ngừng bị đẩy về dĩ vãng...”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead,”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Laughter is easier, minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby

“Sin embargo, allí estaba él, con las mismas exigencias que los otros, como si quisiera arrebatarle algo que era suyo y llevárselo en el bolsillo.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Life starts all over again when it gets cold in the autumn.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Învingătorii aparțin prăzii.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Eventually she had decided to marry for background, and the young pagan from Asheville had gone through a spiritual crisis, joined the Catholic Church, and was now--Monsignor Darcy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“But women marry all their husbands' talents and naturally, afterwards, are not so impressed with them as they may keep up the pretense of being.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

“Cuando yo era más joven y más vulnerable, mi padre me dio un consejo que he tenido en cuenta desde entonces. "Cada vez que sientas deseos de criticar a alguien - me dijo-, recuerda que no todas las personas de este mundo han tenido los mismos privilegios que tú".”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“reverent”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Добрите обноски са негласно признание, че всеки е тъй чувствителен, че трябва да го пипаш с ръкавици. Уважението към хората е друго нещо - не може току-така да наречеш някого страхливец или лъжец, но ако цял живот щадиш хората и тяхната чувствителност и подхранваш тщеславието им, накрая не можеш да различиш онова, което заслужава уважение в тях.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Anthony se alegraba de que él no tuviera que trabajar en su libro. La idea de sentarse a inventar no solo palabras con que vestir ideas, sino ideas dignas de ser vestidas… todo ello resultaba absolutamente ajeno a sus deseos.”
― F Scott Fitzgerald, Beautiful & the Damned

“The sixty acres of the estate were dotted with old and new summer houses and many fountains and white benches that came suddenly into sight from foliage-hung hiding-places; there was a great and constantly increasing family of white cats that prowled the many flower-beds and were silhouetted suddenly at night against the darkening trees. It was on one of the shadowy paths that Beatrice at last captured Amory, after Mr. Blaine had, as usual, retired for the evening to his private library. After reproving him for avoiding her, she took him for a long tête-a-tête in the moonlight. He could not reconcile himself to her beauty, that was mother to his own, the exquisite neck and shoulders, the grace of a fortunate woman of thirty.
"Amory, dear," she crooned softly, "I had such a strange, weird time after I left you."
"Did you, Beatrice?"
"When I had my last breakdown"—she spoke of it as a sturdy, gallant feat.
"The doctors told me"—her voice sang on a confidential note—"that if any many alive had done the consistent drinking that I have, he would have been physically shattered, my dear, and in his grave—long in his grave."
Amory winced, and wondered how this would have sounded to Froggy Parker.
"Yes," continued Beatrice tragically, "I had dreams—wonderful visions." She pressed the palms of her hands into her eyes. "I saw bronze rivers lapping marble shores, and great birds that soared through the air, parti-colored birds with iridescent plumage. I heard strange music and the flare of barbaric trumpets—what?"
Amory had snickered.
"What, Amory?"
"I said go on, Beatrice."
"That was all—it merely recurred and recurred—gardens that flaunted coloring against which this would be quite dull, moons that whirled and swayed, paler than winter moons, more golden than harvest moons——"
"Are you quite well now, Beatrice?"
"Quite well—as well as I will ever be. I am not understood, Amory. I know that can't express it to you, Amory, but—I am not understood."
Amory was quite moved. He put his arm around his mother, rubbing his head gently against her shoulder.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“I possess the most valuable experience, the experience of the race, for in spite of going to college I’ve managed to pick up a good education.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Винаги е тъжно да гледаш с нови очи на неща, към които вече напълно си се приспособил. [Ф. Скор Фицджералд - Великият Гетсби]”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby