Men Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— 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

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— 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

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

He's a bootlegger…One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to…

— 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

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when…

— 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

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

I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Working-girls, in pairs and groups and swarms, loitered by these windows, choosing their future boudoirs from some resplendent display which included even…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I mean the women who, without any of the prerogatives of youth and beauty, demand continual slavery from their men…They sit back…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, i was reminded of something - an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost…

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

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