F. Scott Fitzgerald's Quotes

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Quotes 61

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed...

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as...

The victor belongs to the spoils.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present...

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a...

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the...

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from...

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling...

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning,...

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence...

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic...

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the...

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Forgotten is forgiven.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules....

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You...

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain...

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing...

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