Quotes

“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

“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

“The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“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

“To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“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

“Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“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

“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

“A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“No decent career was ever founded on a public.” 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

“The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“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

“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

“Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“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

“The victor belongs to the spoils.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“You can stroke people with words.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.” Milton Friedman

“Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.” Milton Friedman