Top 64 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

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.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

Action is character.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

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.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.