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F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

1896–1940 United States

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (24 September 1896 – 21 December 1940) was an Irish-American novelist and short story writer.

United States
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Also known as: F Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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75 quotes

I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.

Boredom is not an end product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

The Crack-Up (1945)

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

Notebook E (1945)

I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool — that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

The Great Gatsby (1925)

As this was an inane and unanswerable argument Benjamin made no reply, and from that time on a chasm began to widen between them.

Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

It was a marriage of love. He was sufficiently spoiled to be charming; she was ingenuous enough to be irresistible. Like two floating logs they met in a head-on rush, caught, and sped along together.

Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They are not like aches or wounds; they are more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there is not enough material.

Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.

This Side of Paradise (1920)

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

Tender is the Night (1934)

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.

The Great Gatsby (1925)

At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.

Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation — with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals.

This Side of Paradise (1920)

But it was too late. He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

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

The Crack-Up (1936)

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

This Side of Paradise (1920)

He read at wine, he read in bed, He read aloud, had he the breath, His every thought was with the dead, And so he read himself to death.

Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited – they went there.

The Great Gatsby (1925)

It's not like anything you can beat—no matter how hard you try. … It's just that you can't really help them and it's so discouraging—it's all for nothing.

An Alcoholic Case (1937)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: F. Scott Fitzgerald (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.