No grand idea was ever born in a conference but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
I wish I had done everything on earth with you
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
Will father be there? she asked.John turned to her in astonishment.Your father is dead, he replied somberly. Why should he go to Hades? You have it confused with another place that was abolished long...
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
I don't ask you to love me always like this but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight.
There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses
I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go
Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
Deep in his heart, he wondered if he was after all worse than this man or the next. He knew that he could sophisticate himself finally into saying that his own weakness was just the result of circumst...
It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man , more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road. 'How do you get to West Egg village?' he asked helplessly. I told him. Ans as I walked...
We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let o...
I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.