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100 Best Quotes By F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Author Of The Great Gatsby

Famous As: Best Known for His Novel 'The Great Gatsby'
Born On: September 24, 1896
Died On: December 21, 1940
Born In: Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Died At Age: 44
While talking about the legendary writers of the 20th century, one cannot just miss out on the contribution made by F Scott Fitzgerald in the world of literature. Author of the greatest novels of all time, ‘The Great Gatsby’, F Scott Fitzgerald was truly a sheer genius whose works speak out the brilliance that he exuded as a writer, novelist and short-story teller. He perfectly captured the American society, its culture and its life of the 1920s in his works. Though he gained prominence with his first novel, ‘This Side of Paradise’ which was an immediate bestseller and an out and out  sell-out , his best bit came in only in his third venture, ‘The Great Gatsby’ which has become an iconic and classic American literature. It was followed by ‘Tender is the Night’. Fitzgerald showed signs of making in big in the literary world since early. His first published story came in when he was merely 13 opening gateway for a bright future. It was his devotion for writing that made him to leave his academic to pursue a career in writing. His greatness can be assumed from that fact that his works illustrated the Jazz Age. Just like his works, Fitzgerald’s quotes also spelled magic. They covey a deep meaning through limited words and cover a vast variety of aspects of life and living. Explore some of the finest quotes by F Scott Fitzgerald.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.

Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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.

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
I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

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

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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.

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

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.

I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

F. Scott Fitzgerald
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
You'll find another.' 
God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

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

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
Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.

They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

F. Scott Fitzgerald