“What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?” Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“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.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald FoolGeniusLife
“His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald Intelligence
“After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald LifeLoveOld
“An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald SchoolWar
“Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald ChildMean
“To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald Life
“Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald Trouble
“To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald Life
“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.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald SchoolWarWise
“Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald Greatest
“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.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald ChildParty
“When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald Old
“The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald Lie
“Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald Fool
“No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald Luck
“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald BestLifeYoung
“For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald
