F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes about family & inheritance
8 quotations, each verified against its source and credited to the work it comes from — the wording as F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote or said it, not as the internet passes it around. Drawn from the 141 in the full collection.
Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.
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 other people clean up the mess they had made …
A sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.
I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.
He knew that Daisy was extraordinary, but he didn’t realize just how extraordinary a “nice” girl could be. She vanished into her rich house, into her rich, full life, leaving Gatsby—nothing. He felt married to her, that was all.
Americans, while willing, even eager, to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.
All in all Beatrice O’Hara absorbed the sort of education that will be quite impossible ever again; a tutelage measured by the number of things and people one could be contemptuous of and charming about; a culture rich in all arts and traditions, barren of all ideas, in the last of those days when the great gardener clipped the inferior roses to produce one perfect bud.
Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.
From the books
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- The Great Gatsby quotes · 87 lines (1925)
- This Side of Paradise quotes · 38 lines (1920)
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