Quotes from F Scott Fitzgerald
It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
America is a willingness of the heart.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Grow up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
- F Scott Fitzgerald