F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
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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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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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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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The victor belongs to the spoils.
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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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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
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Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
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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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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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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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interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end
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You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads.
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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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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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
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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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As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.
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I hate the place like poison with a sincere hatred.
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Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
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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.