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More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.
Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.
Never confuse activity with action.
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.
"A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
