1,417 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.

I may turn out an intellectual, but I’ll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

How strange to have failed as a social creature – even criminals do not fail that way – they are the law’s “Loyal Opposition,” so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.

Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

Fairies: Nature’s attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.

Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin – but they don’t, even you and I...

I found something! Courage – just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

Kiss me a paragraph and I’ll reply with a novel.