The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories Quotes

“There are times when you almost tell the harmless old lady next door what you really think of her face—that it ought to be on a night-nurse in a house for the blind; when you’d like to ask the man you’ve been waiting ten minutes for if he isn’t all overheated from racing the postman down the block; when you nearly say to the waiter that if they deducted a cent from the bill for every degree the soup was below tepid the hotel would owe you half a dollar; when—and this is the infallible earmark of true exasperation—a smile affects you as an oil-baron’s undershirt affects a cow’s husband.

But the moment passes. Scars may remain on your dog or your collar or your telephone receiver, but your soul has slid gently back into its place between the lower edge of your heart and the upper edge of your stomach, and all is at peace.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase—‘I love you.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“He wanted a world that was like walking through rain,”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“My courage is faith—faith in the eternal resilience of me—that joy’ll come back, and hope and spontaneity”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“You see, I am fate,” it shouted, “and stronger than your puny plans; and I am how-things-turn-out and I am different from your little dreams, and I am the flight of time and the end of beauty and unfulfilled desire; all the accidents and imperceptions and the little minutes that shape the crucial hours are mine. I am the exception that proves no rules, the limits of your control, the condiment in the dish of life.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“Courage—just that; courage as a rule of life, and something to cling to always.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“She had been kissed once and made love to six times.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“Snobbishness is, after all, merely good breeding grown dictatorial; so Samuel’s code remained, but the necessity of imposing it upon others had faded out in a certain gutter.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“And then when I’d begun to feel that after all life was scarcely worth living I found something”—her eyes went skyward exultantly—“I found something!”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“To add to the breach, he found, as the new century gathered headway, that his thirst for gaiety grew stronger.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Tales from the Jazz Age

“mostly they just stayed round in this languid paradise of dreamy skies and firefly evenings and noisy niggery street fairs—and especially of gracious, soft-voiced girls, who were brought up on memories instead of money.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“For another instant life was radiant and time a phantom and their strength eternal—”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“The girl was slender and frail, with hair that was ashen under the moon and honey-coloured under the sputtering gas-lamps of the porch.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Tales from the Jazz Age

“The word had gone around that a lunatic had passed the entrance examinations for Yale and attempted to palm himself off as a youth of eighteen.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Tales from the Jazz Age

“I don't want to be made a monkey of—" "You've made a monkey of me!" retorted Mr. Button fiercely.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Tales from the Jazz Age

“The old man untied the package and viewed the contents with a quizzical eye.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Tales from the Jazz Age

“A grotesque picture formed itself with dreadful clarity before the eyes of the tortured man—a picture of himself walking through the crowded streets of the city with this appalling apparition stalking by his side.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Tales from the Jazz Age

“The cool perspiration redoubled on Mr. Button's forehead.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Tales from the Jazz Age

“Am I mad?" thundered Mr. Button, his terror resolving into rage. "Is this some ghastly hospital joke?”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Tales from the Jazz Age