F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes:
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The victor belongs to the spoils.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Forgotten is forgiven.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
There are no second acts in American lives.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
F. Scott Fitzgerald