F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.
Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
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.
I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .
Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.
I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.
Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.
Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.
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.
