“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little

fool.”

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible
variety of life.” 

“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”

“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely
justified.”

“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.” 

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” 

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.” 

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” 

“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to
forget the sad things that happened to me.”

"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the
people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.” 

“Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.” 

“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”

“They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch
put together.” 

“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and
the champagne and the stars.” 

“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.” 

“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly
heart.” 

“It takes two to make an accident.” 

“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.” 

“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something
gorgeous about him” 

“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am
one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”

“The rich get richer and the poor get - children.” 

“It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may
come across four or five times in life.”

“Look at that,' she whispered, and then after a moment: 'I'd like to just get one of those
pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.” 

“Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and
in my heart I love her all the time.”
“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not
know that it was already behind him.”

“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its
first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.” 

“Human sympathy has its limits.” 

“Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.” 

“All the bright precious things fade so fast, and they don't come back.”

“It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.” 

“Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I
seemed to bear an enchanted life.”