F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

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.

The rich get richer and the poor get — children.

Her voice is full of money.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

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.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

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

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

Action is character.

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.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.