F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours. View quote
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. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
There are no second acts in American lives. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The victor belongs to the spoils. View quote
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. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Action is character. (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. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Let us show our friendship for a man when he is living and not after he is dead. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald