Tender Is The Night Quotes:

good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

topic: Gloves, Tender Is The Night, Manners

It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Book House (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.649, Book House

topic: Poverty, Spirit, Tender Is The Night

Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.468, e-artnow

topic: Night, Tender Is The Night, Persons

Already with thee! tender is the night. . . But here there is no light. . .

- John Keats

source: 1820 Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems,'Ode to a Nightingale', stanza 4.

topic: Night, Light, Tender Is The Night

New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night”, p.18, Dramatists Play Service Inc

topic: Old Friends, New Friendship, Together, Time Together, Tender Is The Night

The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Emptiness, Gateways, Strongest, Tender Is The Night

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

topic: Pain, Memories, Sometimes, Pain And Pleasure, Tender Is The Night

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Happiness, Past, Afternoon, Tender Is The Night

She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Moving, World, Youth, Lost Youth, Tender Is The Night

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

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

topic: Vanity, People, Feelings, Tender Is The Night

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Space, People, Wells, Tender Is The Night

I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Tired, Knowing, Tender Is The Night, Knowing Nothing

She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

topic: Profound, Promise, Littles, Tender Is The Night

Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.356, e-artnow

topic: Tender Is The Night

When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to me before but never like this - so accidental - just when everything was going well.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.338, e-artnow

topic: Agony, People, Suffering, Tender Is The Night

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Thinking, Discipline, Taste, Tender Is The Night

You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night”, p.37, Dramatists Play Service Inc

topic: Girl, Long, Looks, Tender Is The Night

Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Kissing, Tender Is The Night

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: Tender Is the Night bk. 2, ch. 11 (1934)

topic: Writing, Skins, Scar, Pathology, Tender Is The Night

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Fog, Space, People, Tender Is The Night

was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is that music--do I wake or sleep?

- John Keats

topic: Love, Dream, Sleep, Adieu, Tender Is The Night

I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

- A. Scott Berg

topic: Book, School, Night, Tender Is The Night

I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.

- David Nicholls

topic: Night, Romance, Atmosphere, Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is The Night

Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel.

- Joyce Carol Oates

topic: Night, Scott Fitzgerald, Fables, Best Novel, Tender Is The Night