Top 64 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

There are no second acts in American lives.

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.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.