1,417 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

I am glad you are happy--but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.

He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

It is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before.