Top 500 F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes (2023 Update)
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151. “Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

152. “The rich are different from us.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

153. “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

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

155. “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

156. “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

157. “Happiness is the relief after extreme tension.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

161. “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

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

163. “A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

165. “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

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

169. “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

170. “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

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

172. “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

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

174. “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

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

176. “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

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

178. “Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

179. “I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

180. “There’s so much spring in the air- there’s so much lazy sweetness in your heart.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

182. “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

183. “It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

184. “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

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

186. “A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

187. “No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

188. “Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

189. “You’re the only girl I’ve seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

190. “He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths – so that he could ‘come over’ some afternoon to a stranger’s garden.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

191. “These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire – I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

192. “The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

194. “She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

195. “But I always felt that I’d rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

196. “January, the Monday of months...”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

197. “So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

199. “But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

200. “Her voice sounded like money.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald