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Youth Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.
- The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes. The adolescent offers…
- After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
- An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
- Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
- 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…
- 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…
- It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many…
- When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows,…
- There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for…
- It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day…
- Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they…
- The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or…
- She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.
- His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of four…
- 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 for…
- I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They…
- i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself
- He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The gates were closed,…
- It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and beauty, and I…
- My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and…
- Though the Jazz Age continued, it became less and less of an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by…
- An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.An author ought…
More Youth Quotes
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
- Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming… — Jane Austen
- The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. — Richard Bach
- Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and… — Francis Bacon
- Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than… — Francis Bacon
- For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially… — Honore de Balzac
- If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and… — Honore de Balzac