Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.

Im a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they wont.

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.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a childrens party taken over by the elders.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three oclock in the morning, day after day.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They dont go according to any rules. Theyre not like aches or wounds, theyre more like splits in the skin that wont heal because theres not enough material.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

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.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

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

Forgotten is forgiven.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

“I learned a little of beauty-- enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth...”