F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes and Sayings
- Name:
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (random)
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- Author
- Nationality:
- American
- Birth Date / Year:
- September 24, 1896
- Death Date / Year:
- December 21, 1940
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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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Action is character. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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Forgotten is forgiven. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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No decent career was ever founded on a public. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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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. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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The victor belongs to the spoils. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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There are no second acts in American lives. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years? F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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You can stroke people with words. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. F. Scott Fitzgerald | Refcard PDF ↑
