Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Related Quotes:

" Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" 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. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" Action is character. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" 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

" A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" No decent career was ever founded on a public. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" 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 the schoolmasters of ever afterward. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. "

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 early childhood. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Early Childhood

" An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" 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. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald