Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Courage to me means ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life-not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You seem to take things so personally, hating people and worshipping them--always thinking people are so important--especially yourselves. You just ask to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courage and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Writers aren't exactly people, they are a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You're a rotten driver,' I protested. 'Either you ought to be more careful or you oughtn't to drive at all.' 'I am… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The sheath that held her soul had assumed significance - that was all. She was a sun, radiant, growing, gathering light and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Another dawn flung itself across the river; a belated taxi hurried along the street, its lamps still shining like burning eyes in a face… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“She plucked a twig and broke it, but she found no spring in it.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills but getting few myself except those I read into men… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He was good looking, "sort of distinguished when he wants to be", had a line, and was properly inconstant. In fact, he summed up… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
