More - F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

 Birth Weekends

Forgotten is forgiven.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

 Forgiveness

This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat…

F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

 Ability Intelligence And Intellectuals

Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

 People

Always willing to lend a helping hand to the one above him.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

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 Fitzgerald

 Discipline

I can't describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for a while that she'd throw me over, but she didn't, because she was in love with me too. She thought I knew a lot beacause I knew different things from her....Well, there I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care. What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do? Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

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 Fitzgerald

 Family

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

 Heroes And Heroism Heroism