Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply. F. Scott Fitzgerald More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald More Quotes From F. Scott Fitzgerald There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while. F. Scott Fitzgerald first-kiss kissing firsts Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home. F. Scott Fitzgerald eye home thinking in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes F. Scott Fitzgerald lips eye rooms He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized. F. Scott Fitzgerald dehumanization alienation terrible Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog. F. Scott Fitzgerald cat imagination dog Action is character. F. Scott Fitzgerald success motivational inspirational Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-- the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside-- the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once. There is another sort of blow that comes from within-that you don't feel until it's too late to do anything about it, until you realize with finality that in some regard you will never be as good a man again. F. Scott Fitzgerald weakness blow men Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again. F. Scott Fitzgerald simple fun thinking I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish. F. Scott Fitzgerald relax wish want If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again. F. Scott Fitzgerald hatred heart world To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed. F. Scott Fitzgerald despair soul men Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love-words, the tenderness learned, and treasured up for the next lover. F. Scott Fitzgerald pieces love-is thinking I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. F. Scott Fitzgerald saws forgiving done It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. F. Scott Fitzgerald quality four may I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth. F. Scott Fitzgerald enough knows littles A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn. F. Scott Fitzgerald ducks girl sight Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother. F. Scott Fitzgerald brother book children Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts. F. Scott Fitzgerald uncanny common heart She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven. F. Scott Fitzgerald lovely twenties people You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody. F. Scott Fitzgerald girl break-up waiting
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