F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
One writes of scars healed.
I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.
Action is character.
We drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.
The victor belongs to the spoils.
Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck
I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
The victor belongs to the spoils.
All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase - "I love you."
I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
I understand and I'm happier than life ever meant me to be
Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.
All my beautiful lovely safe world blew itself up here with a great gust of high explosive love.
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.
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
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.
You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
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.
