The Rich Boy Quotes

“Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created—nothing. That is because we are all queer fish, queerer behind our faces and voices than we want any one to know or than we know ourselves. When I hear a man proclaiming himself an "average, honest, open fellow," I feel pretty sure that he has some definite and perhaps terrible abnormality which he has agreed to conceal—and his protestation of being average and honest and open is his way of reminding himself of his misprision.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Rich Boy

“Nevertheless, his very superiority kept him from being a success in college--the independence was mistaken for egotism, and the refusal to accept Yale standards with the proper awe seemed to belittle all those who had.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Rich Boy

“It was a time of youth and war, and there was never so much love around.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Rich Boy