Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

About F. Scott Fitzgerald:

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby (his best known), and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with age and despair.
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Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

You see, this is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding--it's got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.

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When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.

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He desired her and, so far as her virginal emotions went, she contemplated a surrender with equanimity. Yet she knew she would forget him half an hour after she left him - like an actor kissed in a picture.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Their point of resemblance to each other and their difference from so many American women, lay in the fact that they were all happy to exist in a man's world--they preserved their individuality through men and not by opposition to them. They would al...

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Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine.

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New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

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Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

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He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the walls.

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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.

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Think how you love me," she whispered. "I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night.

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Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

When people have so much for outsiders didn't it indicate a lack of inner intensity?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I don't ask you to love me always like this but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

She walked rather quickly; she liked to be active, though at times she gave an impression of repose that was at once static and evocative. This was because she knew few words and believed in none, and in the world she was rather silent, contributing ...

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Durante il fragoroso decollo Dick si sentì intorpidito, rendendosi conto di quanto fosse stanco. Un’enorme persuasiva tranquillità s’impossessò di lui, e lasciò la malattia ai malati, il rumore ai motori, la direzione ai piloti.

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This western-front business couldn’t be done again, not for a long time. The young men think they could do it but they couldn’t. They could fight the first Marne again but not this. This took religion and years of plenty and tremendous sureties a...

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Author Bio

  • NameF. Scott Fitzgerald
  • DescriptionAmerican author of novels and short stories
  • AliasesFrancis Scott Fitzgerald; Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
  • BornSeptember 24, 1896
  • DiedDecember 21, 1940
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Short Story Writer; Screenwriter
  • WorksThe Great Gatsby