Quote

Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Age: 43 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 24
Died: 1940
Died: December 21
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
St Paul
Minnesota
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Gratifying
Frustrating
Shakespeare
Surprising

More quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Image
Look at that,' she whispered, and then after a moment: 'I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
I'm not much like myself any more.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
It takes two to make an accident.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
The rich are different from us.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
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
Image
The things that'll make you fail I'll love always.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Image
Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.
F. Scott Fitzgerald