6 F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes on War

F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes on war

29. The victor belongs to the spoils.

38. There had been a war fought and won and the great city of the conquering people was crossed with triumphal arches and vivid with thrown flowers of white, red, and rose.

63. Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They are not like aches or wounds; they are more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there is not enough material.

83. See that little stream, we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a whole month to walk to it, a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million bloody rugs.

84. She's got to be a loyal, frank person if she's got to bitch everyone in the world to do it.

92. Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.