Francis Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence; but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one.... Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.

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

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

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.

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

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.

There are no second acts in American lives.