Francis Scott Fitzgerald: Citáty anglicky (strana 3)

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

“Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.”

“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”

“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”

“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”

“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”

“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.”

“Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.”

“They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”

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

“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”

“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”

“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”

“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”

“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.”

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

“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”

“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”

“It takes two to make an accident.”