Words matter. These are the best F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.
Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
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.
Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.
No decent career was ever founded on a public.
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
Action is character.
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
Only remember west of the Mississippi it’s a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
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.
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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.
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.
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you’ll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
You can stroke people with words.
