F. Scott Fitzgerald World Quotations

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.

No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.

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

She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.

I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.

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

If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired

She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.

You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.

Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on.

Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. --The Sensible Thing

I want to do everything in the world with you.

He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.

They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.

Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility

Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was.