Quotes from F Scott Fitzgerald
Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
You can stroke people with words.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
No such thing as a man willing to be honest -- that would be like a blind man willing to see.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbour's as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
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.
- F Scott Fitzgerald