F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. 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 all over again.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope that you have the strength to start all over again.

At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That’s a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try.

Every once in a while one of these contemporaries made a farewell round of calls before going up to New York or Philadelphia or Pittsburgh to go into business, but mostly they just stayed round in this languid paradise of dreamy skies and firefly evenings and noisy nigger street fairs - and especially of gracious, soft-voiced girls, who were brought up on memories instead of money.

Here’s to alcohol, the rose coloured glasses of life.

Cut all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at you own joke.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

You're a historian. Tell me if there are any bath-tubs in history. I think they've been frightfully neglected.

"Jelly-bean" is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular — I am idling, I have idled, I will idle.

Jim Powell was a Jelly-bean. Much as I desire to make him an appealing character, I feel that it would be unscrupulous to deceive you on that point. He was a bred-in-the-bone, dyed-in-the-wool, ninety-nine three-quarters per cent Jelly-bean and he grew lazily all during Jelly-bean season, which is every season, down in the land of the Jelly-beans well below the Mason-Dixon line.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

If living isn't seeking for the grail it may be a damned amusing game.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation — with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Isn’t Hollywood a dump — in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.