Quote

Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him and ambiguous eyes stared into his, he assumed the most romantic of expressions and walked on the air cushions that lie on the asphalts of fourteen.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Age: 43 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 24
Died: 1940
Died: December 21
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
St Paul
Minnesota
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Failing
Walked
Cushions
Expression
Notice
Ambiguous
Boys
Romantic
Stared
Eyes
Fail
Expressions
Lying
Turned
Fourteen
Faces
Air
Marked
Eye
Toward
Assumed
Throng
People
Glory
Wondered
Asphalt

More quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Image
For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
that voice was a deathless song.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
She was incurably dishonest.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
America is a willingness of the heart.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to me before but never like this - so accidental - just when everything was going well.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
The rich get richer and the poor get - children.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.
F. Scott Fitzgerald