Quotes from F Scott Fitzgerald
The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
All things come to him who mates.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!
- F Scott Fitzgerald
He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
We all must try to be good.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.
- F Scott Fitzgerald