Top 64 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

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.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

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

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

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