More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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.
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.
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.
No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.
Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
