Here we have put together a list of the 25 best quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Top 25 F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes and Sayings
You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
I'm not sentimental - I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last - the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy.
There are no second acts in American lives.
I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
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.
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.
I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.
Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
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.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.