F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything.

Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual pleasures of the world we live in.

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't.

Think how you love me, " she whispered. "I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night.

I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth...

That’s going to be your trouble — judgment about yourself.(Tender is the Night)

I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

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 you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.

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.

My God, ' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.

What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink.

My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval.

Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.

Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.

I suppose that there's a caddish streak in every man that runs crosswise across his character and disposition and general outlook.

The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap.

They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.

Let us learn how to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead' he suggested, 'After that my own rule is to let everything alone'.

For America is composed not of two sorts of people, but of two frames of mind - the first engaged in doing what is would like to do, the second pretending that such things do not exist.

Breathing dreams like air

It was a curious day, slashed abruptly with fleeting, familiar impressions.

. . . confirmed libertines don't reform until they're tired . . .

Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for its teachings.

He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the walls.

I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I’m his ideal.

It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.

Her eyes in the half-light suggested night and violets, and for a moment he stirred again to that half-forgotten remoteness of the afternoon.

I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.

Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.

Courage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.

A fellow has to believe in something, Jay-such as the rottenness of humanity.

There are always those to whom all self-revelation is contemptible, unless it ends with a noble thanks to the gods for the Unconquerable Soul.

The sea, he thought, had treasured it's memories deeper than the faithless land.

their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Always, after he was in bed, there were voices - indefinite, fading, enchanting - just outside his window, and before he fell asleep he would dream one of his favorites waking dreams.

...he told me all the things he liked to THINK he thought in the misty past.

But magic must hurry on, and the lovers remain...

There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is blink.

Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.

The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.

I wouldn't ask too much of her, ' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!