Top 64 Quotes by 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.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

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