Francis Scott Fitzgerald > Quotes

“I'd rather marry a man of fifty and be taken care of than marry a man of thirty and take care of him.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“La conciencia de las normas básicas de conducta se reparte de manera desigual al nacer.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, El gran Gatsby

“I don't know what's the matter with me. Last night I thought I was in love with a man and to-night I think I'm in love with you—"—it seemed to him a beautiful and romantic thing to say.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams

“Old fellows like me can't learn new tricks.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“I'd feel I was... wastin' myself. There's two sides to me, you see. There's the sleepy old side you love; an' there's a sort of energy – the feelin' that makes me do wild things. That's the part of me that may be useful somewhere. that'll last when I'm not beautiful anymore.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

“I see you're looking at my cuff buttons."

I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now. They were composed of oddly familiar pieces of ivory.

"Finest specimens of human molars," he informed me.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Y así seguimos avanzando hacia la muerte a través del frescor del crepúsculo.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, El gran Gatsby

“I was brought by a woman named Roosevelt,” he continued. “Mrs. Claud Roosevelt. Do you know her? I met her somewhere last night. I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.” “Has it?” “A little bit, I think. I can’t tell yet. I’ve only been here an hour. Did I tell you about the books? They’re real.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“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.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

“mai avevano comunicato così profondamente, di quando lei sfiorò le labbra silenziose contro la sua spalla o di quando lui le sfiorò la punta delle dita, delicatamente, come se lei dormisse.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“In my heart I love her all the time.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Sembra che per sfuggire al dolore dobbiamo ripercorrere gli stessi passi che ci hanno portati lì.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“This isn't just an epigram–life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Hacia mitad de camino entre West Egg y Nueva York la carretera se acerca de repente a la línea del ferrocarril y corre a su lado por espacio de unos cuatrocientos metros, como si quisiera evitar así cierta desolada extensión de tierra. Se trata de un valle de cenizas, de una granja fantástica donde las cenizas, como si fueran trigo, crecen formando crestas y colinas y jardines grotescos; donde las cenizas adoptan la forma de casas y de chimeneas y del humo que sale por ellas y, finalmente, mediante un esfuerzo trascendental, incluso de hombres que se mueven confusamente, para desmoronarse al instante en el aire polvoriento.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, El gran Gatsby

“Sally Carol," he said very slowly, "what do you say to March?"
"I say I love you."
"March?"
"March, Harry.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Ice Palace

“Ο μεγάλος Γκάτσμπυ

Κάποτε, την εποχή που ήμουνα αρκετά πιο νέος και πολύ πιο ευαίσθητος, ο πατέρας μου μου έδωσε μια συμβουλή που δεν έπαψε από τότε να συνοδεύει την σκέψη μου. 'Όταν ετοιμάζεσαι να κατακρίνεις κάποιον', μου είπε, 'θυμήσου πρώτα ότι δεν είχαν όλοι οι άνθρωποι τις δικές σου ευκαιρίες στη ζωή'.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“E così andiamo avanti, barche contro la corrente, incessantemente trascinati verso il passato.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the ‘Yale News.’—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the ‘well-rounded man.’ This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“If the morning had been cold and gray he could have grasped the reins of the past in an instant, but it was one of those days that New York gets sometimes in May, when the air on Fifth Avenue is a soft, light wine.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Seguimos por encima del gran puente, y la luz del sol, entre los pilares, hacía guiños constantes sobre los coches en movimiento, mientras la ciudad se alzaba al otro lado del río en montones blancos, altas torres de azúcar construidas con el deseo de purificar el dinero mismo. La ciudad desde el puente Queensboro es siempre la ciudad vista por vez primera, intacta todavía, su primera promesa desmesurada de todo el misterio y de toda la belleza del mundo.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, El gran Gatsby

“Non c'è fuoco né gelo tale da sfidare ciò che un uomo può accumulare nel proprio cuore.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“They talk as an English butler might after several years in a Chicago grand-opera company.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Quando qualcuno ha tanto da dare all'esterno, ciò non indica forse una carenza di intensità interiore?”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that
year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no
matter — to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms
farther… . And one fine morning ——
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“He came only once, in white knickerbockers, and had a fight with a bum named Etty in the garden.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real. Once he nearly toppled down a flight of stairs.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Por un instante una frase intentó adquirir forma; mis labios se entreabrieron esforzándose como los de un mudo, como si en ellos hubiera más violencia que la de una ráfaga huracanada. Pero no exhalaron el menor sonido y lo que estuve a punto de decir se perdió para siempre.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, El gran Gatsby

“I’m in love with change and I’ve killed my conscience–”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“-Pensa in questo momento quanto mi ami; -mormorò. -Non ti chiedo di amarmi sempre così, ma ti chiedo di ricordare. Nascosta dentro di me ci sarà sempre la persona che sono stasera.-”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Fine dives have been made from flimsier spring-boards”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night