F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes & Quotations

F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

» I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

» 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.

» 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.

» At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

» 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.

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

» Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

» 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.

» 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.

» 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.

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