1,417 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

I like France, where everybody thinks he’s Napoleon – down here everybody thinks he’s Christ.

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.

You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had.

There’s no beauty without poignancy and there’s no poignancy without the feeling that it’s going, men, names, books, houses – bound for dust – mortal –.

New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. The returning troops marched up Fifth Avenue and girls were instinctively drawn East and North toward them – this was the greatest nation and there was gala in the air.

The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire’s bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle.

It appears that every man’s insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

The trouble is that sometimes she gets foolish ideas in her head and doesn’t know what she’s doing.