Francis Scott Fitzgerald: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 12)

“Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.”

“You've got an awfully kissable mouth.”

“Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you!”

“The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.”

“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.”

“At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p. m.”

“one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.”

“I can’t exactly describe how I feel but it’s not quite right. And it leaves me cold.”

“If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.”

“The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.”

“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”

“Life cracked like ice!”

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.”

“Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.”

“In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.”

“Amory: I love you.
Rosalind: I love you- now.”

“Art isn't meaningless… It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.”

“my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.”

“Character is plot, plot is character.”