Famous F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged – the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.
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
The victor belongs to the spoils.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
It takes a genius to whine appealingly.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
There are no second acts in American lives.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
