Fitzgerald

Famous quotes containing the word fitzgerald:

    How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law’s “Loyal Opposition,” so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    Listen, little Elia: draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence; but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)