Francis Scott Fitzgerald: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 10)

“Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.”

“I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.”

“I am a woman and my business is to hold things together.

My business is to tear them apart.”

“I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.”

“I want leisure to read—an immense amount.”

“She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.”

“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.”

“People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.”

“It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.”

“I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.”

“Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.”

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

“He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.”

“The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.”

“Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.”

“Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.”

“Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.”

“You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.”

“All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream”