1925 · Skopia

Showing 32 quotes from 1925

This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

1925

★ 9.1

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby · 1925

★ 7.3

The great question that has never been answered…is what does a woman want?

1925

★ 7.1

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.

The Professor's House · 1925

★ 6.9

That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby · 1925

★ 6.4

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

1925

★ 6.1

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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby · 1925

★ 5.5

Autobiography and memoir

The great masses of the people...more easily fall a victim to a big lie than to a little one.

Mein Kampf · 1925

★ 5.4

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

1925

★ 5.3

Now I was eight and very small, And he was no whit bigger, And so I smiled, but he poked out His tongue, and called me, "Nigger." I saw the whole of Baltimore From May until December; Of all the things that happened there That's all that I remember.

Incident · 1925

★ 5.0

Political literature · Autobiography and memoir

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

Mein Kampf · 1925

★ 4.6

Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

1925

★ 4.5

Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby · 1925

★ 3.9

Speech · Political speech

America seeks no earthly empire built on blood and force. No ambition, no temptation, lures her to thought of foreign dominions.

Calvin Coolidge

Second Inaugural Address of Calvin Coolidge · 1925

★ 3.6

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

The Counterfeiters · 1925

★ 3.5

Dialogue · Philosophical literature

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

George Santayana

1925

★ 3.5

The religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.

Alfred North Whitehead

Religion and Science · 1925

★ 3.5

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby · 1925

★ 2.2

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby · 1925

★ 2.1

In the realm of the emotions, the real is indistinguishable from the imaginary.

The Counterfeiters · 1925

★ 1.9

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