F.Scott Fitsgerald Quotes

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

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. ~ F.Scott Fitsgerald

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. ~ F.Scott Fitsgerald

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. ~ F.Scott Fitsgerald

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. ~ F.Scott Fitsgerald

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 Fitsgerald

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

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
F.Scott Fitsgerald

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't ~ F.Scott Fitsgerald

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 Fitsgerald

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. ~ F.Scott Fitsgerald