F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

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

Work, Long, Done

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Respect, Simple, Drunk

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

God, Heart, Put

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
F. Scott Fitzgerald

After, Next, Ourselves

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

Life, Love, After

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

Men, Mean, Since

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

Live, Country, Rule

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life, Profound, Danger

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Great, Lose, Few

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life, Write, Three

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

Write, Youth, Next

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

Life, Around, Youth

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

Different, Trouble, Necessary

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

Men, Sick, Between

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Dream, Youth, Everybody

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

Wise, Idea, Youth

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nothing, Luck, Obnoxious

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Greatest, Unless, Riches

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

Age, Children, Youth

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

May, Put, Matter

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

No decent career was ever founded on a public.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Career, Public, Decent

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Women, American, Relief

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Great, Art, Small

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: September 24, 1896

Died: December 21, 1940

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