Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as โcruelty.
F. Scott FitzgeraldHe lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. "I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.
F. Scott FitzgeraldSomething was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.
F. Scott FitzgeraldPeople talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.
F. Scott FitzgeraldGood manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respectโyou don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.
F. Scott Fitzgerald