Men Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-- the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

There used to be two kinds of kisses: First when girls were kissed and deserted; second, when they were engaged. Now there's…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The past--the wild charge at the head of his men up San Juan Hill; the first years of his marriage when he…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

And it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald