Fitzgerald Quotes

Fitzgerald Quote of the day

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.

Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.

She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

I worship F. Scott Fitzgerald and I love his writing.

Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

You've got an awfully kissable mouth.

It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

Human sympathy has its limits.

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-

They had created themselves together, and they always saw themselves, their youth, their love, their lost youth and lost love, their failures and memories, as a sort of living fiction.

Scott Fitzgerald is a sound you like to hear at certain times of the day, say at four in the afternoon and again late at night, and at other times it makes you slightly sick.

I originally wanted to be F. Scott Fitzgerald, but failed.

F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent.

Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel.

F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.

Scott Fitzgerald was mortally afraid of lightning.

I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.

I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character.

With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.

My own rule is to let everything alone.

Believe me, I may be a bit blasé, but I can still get any man I want.

Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish.

This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I must admit, somewhat obscene.

no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.

From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest.Darkness, you know, is relative.

There was not a moving up into vacated places

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”John Fitzgerald Kennedy

It isn't where you came from

And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever

Peace can be fragile and peace can be ugly and peace can be wrong. Peace built on lies is no peace at all.

There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character.

I found something! Courage--just that

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires

Are you exciting to be with... or are you boring like the rest of them?

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones.

He called me his 'dream.' I guess now I've become his nightmare.