Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert — F. Scott Fitzgerald
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next — F. Scott Fitzgerald
After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people — F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of — F. Scott Fitzgerald
No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
For awhile after you quit keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Only remember west of the mississippi it’s a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race — F. Scott Fitzgerald
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day. — F. Scott Fitzgerald