Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions. F. Scott Fitzgerald on respect
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 romantic
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 romantic
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. F. Scott Fitzgerald on sad
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. F. Scott Fitzgerald on success
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 success
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 time
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. F. Scott Fitzgerald on women
The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. F. Scott Fitzgerald on women
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way. F. Scott Fitzgerald on work
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. F. Scott Fitzgerald on new years