It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Quote by F Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: Friends Quotes, Funny Quotes

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as...

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as...

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.

Nick, on the Buchanans: They were careless people, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up...

Nick, on the Buchanans: They were careless people, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up...

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in...

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in...

Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee...

Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee...

Action is character.

Action is character.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a...

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a...

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard....

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard....

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

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

Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was...

Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was...

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest...

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest...

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against...

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against...

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like...

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like...

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty...

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty...

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have...

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have...

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like...

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like...

The victor belongs to the spoils.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

Forgotten is forgiven.

Forgotten is forgiven.