F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be.

I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans.

..Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

To be kind is more important than to be right.

Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

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

You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

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.

I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

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

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

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

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.

Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

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.

Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect.

And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.

God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing.

You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

We all have souls of different ages

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .

all the time something within her was crying for a decision.

She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand

The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.

Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.

When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better.

He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.

Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

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.

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.

You seem to take things so personally, hating people and worshipping them--always thinking people are so important--especially yourselves. You just ask to be kicked around. I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it--on the inside.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

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

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.

Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.