F. Scott Fitzgerald Want Quotations

I want leisure to read—an immense amount.

the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.

I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.

How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.

For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.

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.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.

I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

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

He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.

The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.

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

I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.

I want to be a society vampire, you see.

I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No... I just remembered that today's my birthday." I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

I want to tell you about your heart— you've probably been neglecting your heart—and you don’t know.

I want to do everything in the world with you.

I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally.

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

It's Never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be.

He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him.