Top 64 Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

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

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.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.