31 Quotes By F. Scott Fitzgerald


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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald on age

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
F. Scott Fitzgerald on art

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
F. Scott Fitzgerald on best

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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald on business

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald on communication

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
F. Scott Fitzgerald on family

Forgotten is forgiven.
F. Scott Fitzgerald on forgiveness

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
F. Scott Fitzgerald on god

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
F. Scott Fitzgerald on great

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
F. Scott Fitzgerald on great

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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald on happiness

I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
F. Scott Fitzgerald on hope

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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald on intelligence

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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald on intelligence

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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald on life

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
F. Scott Fitzgerald on men

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
F. Scott Fitzgerald on morning

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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald on movies

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
F. Scott Fitzgerald on poetry

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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald on power