More Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?
Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
"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
I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.
I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
