Top 64 Quotes by 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.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

Forgotten is forgiven.

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

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

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