55 Best F Scott Fitzgerald Quotes From 'The Great Gatsby' Author
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was a famous novelist and short story writer from America.
Over his span of life, Fitzgerald wrote 164 short stories and four novels. Among his works, 'The Great Gatsby' is considered the best and most important work.
'The Great Gatsby' is also cited as the 'Great American novel'. Fitzgerald's writing involved a feeling of impending doom along with subtle romantic moments.
Fitzgerald's life, especially his children, influenced his writings to a great extent. His books, such as 'Tender Is The Night', are read in many English classrooms worldwide.
Even after one novel, you'll want to read more. If you're from the community of people who've read a novel by Fitzgerald and been transported to the nice side of paradise, you should definitely read these quotes whenever you feel like it.
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Best Quotes Of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Enlisted below are some best quotes of F. Scott Fitzgerald along with 'The Great Gatsby' quotes and F. Scott Fitzgerald book quotes, in some of which you can see how his writing was influenced by his life.
1." In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. 'Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.'"
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, 'The Great Gatsby'.
2. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, 'The Great Gatsby'.
3. "The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last - the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
4. "The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
5. "I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
6. "Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
7. "When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors."
- F.Scott Fitzgerald.
8. "It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
9. "I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
10. "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.
11. "For a while I lost sight of Jordan Baker, and then in midsummer I found her again. I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
12. "Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
13. "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
14. "You belong."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
15. "If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Famous F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes
Here are some of the famous quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
16. "And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
17. "The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American."
- F.Scott Fitzgerald.
18. "France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
19. "You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
20. "Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel."
- F.Scott Fitzgerald.
21. "I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
21. "Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
22. "The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind"
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
23. "For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be."
- F.Scott Fitzgerald.
24. "I'm a romantic."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
25. "You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
26. "Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
27. "Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
28. "I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses."
- F.Scott Fitzgerald.
Scott Fitzgerald Quotes About Life
Here are some of the coolest quotes on life by F. Scott Fitzgerald. You'll at least have one favorite after you finish reading this list.
29. "Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
30. "I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
31. "His mind tired - tired with nothing, tired with everything, with the world's weight he had never chosen to bear."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
31. "You don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
32. "Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
33. "I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
34. "Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives."
- F.Scott Fitzgerald.
35. "Yet from this fog his affection emerged - the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
36. "That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
37. "A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
38. "Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Love Quotes
Enlisted below are the love quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Be careful - some of these quotes are so great they might just give you a heart attack!
39. "Unloved women have no biographies - they have histories."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
40. "Until now he had half unconsciously cherished the hope deep in his heart that some day she would need him and send for him."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
41. "His dark eyes took me in, and I wondered what they would look like if he fell in love."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
42. "When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
43. "Beauty and love pass, I know. Oh, there's sadness, too."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
44. "There was a midsummer restlessness abroad—early August with imprudent loves and impulsive crimes."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
45. "Actually that's my secret — I can't even talk about you to anybody because I don't want any more people to know how wonderful you are."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
46. "Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Inspirational Quotes From F. Scott Fitzgerald
Here are the best inspirational quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
47. "There's no substitute for will."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
48. "I don't care about truth. I want some happiness."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
49. "I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
50. "I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
51. "I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
52. "Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
53. "Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald.
54. "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired."
- F.Scott Fitzgerald.
55. "Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
- F.Scott Fitzgerald.
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