Top 500 F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

152. “I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

153. “I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

154. “An unread book is just a block of paper.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

155. “What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

156. “It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

157. “I found something! Courage – just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

158. “Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

159. “A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

160. “Breathing dreams like air.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

161. “Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy – one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

162. “New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

163. “So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

164. “The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

166. “We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

167. “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

168. “Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged – the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

169. “The rich are different from us.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

170. “I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

171. “I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

172. “The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

173. “All I think of ever is that I love you.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

174. “It’s a mining town in lotus land.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

175. “No matter how low you go, there’s always an unexplored basement.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

176. “This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children’s eyes.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

177. “Never confuse activity with action.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

178. “It takes two to make an accident.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

179. “Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

180. “Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

181. “You can’t repeat the past.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

182. “Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

183. “There’s a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you’ve made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don’t suppose I can stop you, but I really don’t think it’s very considerate.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

184. “An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

185. “I’ll drink your champagne. I’ll drink every drop of it, I don’t care if it kills me.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

186. “Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

188. “Beautiful things only grow to a certain height, and then they fail and fade off.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

189. “I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

190. “Thirty – the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

191. “Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

192. “I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

193. “Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

194. “Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream’s shadow.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

195. “The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

196. “It’s Never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

197. “Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

198. “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

199. “Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

200. “I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald