Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, commonly known as F. Scott Fitzgerald or simply Scott Fitzgerald, was born on September 24, 1896, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. He was an American short-story writer and novelist celebrated as the voice of the Jazz Age. He was also the author of the iconic novels The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise, coining the term "Jazz Age," and establishing himself as a leading voice of 20th-century American literature. May these famous F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes and sayings give you insights that will help you achieve your goals.
1. “For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. “Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. “Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. “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 again.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. “I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. “At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. “She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
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10. “Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
11. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. “A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. “To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. “All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
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15. “You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
16. “Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. “Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
18. “His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
19. “No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
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20. “Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
21. “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
22. “Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
23. “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
24. “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
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25. “There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
26. “I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
27. “Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meager.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
28. “The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. “Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
30. “Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes about Life
31. “After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
32. “No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. “You can stroke people with words.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
34. “Optimism is the content of small men in high places.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
35. “The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
36. “An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man knocking over the solid furniture.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
37. “First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
38. “Forgotten is forgiven.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. “No such thing as a man willing to be honest—that would be like a blind man willing to see.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
40. “Action is character.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
41. “Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
42. “Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
43. “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
44. “The victor belongs to the spoils.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
45. “When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
46. “Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
47. “Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
48. “Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
49. “The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
50. “It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2. “Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. “Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. “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 again.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. “I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. “At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
9. “She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
11. “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. “A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. “To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. “All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
16. “Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. “Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
18. “His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
19. “No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
21. “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
22. “Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
23. “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
24. “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
26. “I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
27. “Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meager.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
28. “The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. “Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
30. “Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
More F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes about Life
31. “After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
32. “No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. “You can stroke people with words.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
34. “Optimism is the content of small men in high places.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
35. “The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
36. “An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man knocking over the solid furniture.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
37. “First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
38. “Forgotten is forgiven.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. “No such thing as a man willing to be honest—that would be like a blind man willing to see.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
40. “Action is character.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
41. “Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
42. “Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
43. “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
44. “The victor belongs to the spoils.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
45. “When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
46. “Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
47. “Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
48. “Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
49. “The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
50. “It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Share these Inspirational Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.