F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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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.
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interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end
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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
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You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
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Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
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Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I.
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
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I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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'Jelly-bean' is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular - I am idling, I have idled, I will idle.
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
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John T. Unger came from a family that had been well known in Hades - a small town on the Mississippi River - for several generations.
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.
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But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room.
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For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!
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It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries... but our children's friends must show a blank service record.