F. Scott Fitzgerald Top 10 Quotes
| 10 | Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. |
| 9 | 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. |
| 8 | 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. |
| 7 | Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. |
| 6 | You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me. |
| 5 |
Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know, because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand. |
| 4 |
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we've forgotten there’s any other way. |
| 3 |
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer |
| 2 | It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being. |
| 1 | So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. |
