Top 500 F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes (2023 Update)
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201. “It takes two to make an accident.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

202. “Never confuse activity with action.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

203. “Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

204. “It was Sunday – not a day, but rather a gap between two other days.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

206. “I hope I haven’t given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

207. “One hurries through, even though there’s time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

208. “I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

209. “Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

210. “But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

211. “Breathing dreams like air.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

212. “Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them – their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

213. “All the city was playing with this sound out there in the blue summer dark, throwing it up and calling it back, promising that, in a little while, life would be beautiful as a story, promising happiness – and by that promise giving it. It gave love hope in its own survival. It could do no more.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

214. “Nicole’s world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

215. “Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

216. “If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

217. “And then, one fairy night, May became June.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

219. “Here’s to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

220. “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

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

222. “I talk with the authority of failure – Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

224. “He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

225. “She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

226. “I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

227. “It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

228. “Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can’t, shan’t be the setting – it’s going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

229. “Everywhere we go and move on and change, something’s lost – something’s left behind. You can’t ever quite repeat anything, and I’ve been so yours, here –.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

230. “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

231. “If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

232. “The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

233. “I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

234. “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

235. “I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all – Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

236. “America is a willingness of the heart.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

237. “Optimism is the content of small men in high places.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

238. “It’s all life is. Just going ’round kissing people.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

239. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such – such beautiful shirts before.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

240. “Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

241. “It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

242. “It isn’t given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

243. “And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

244. “Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

245. “She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

246. “She was beautiful – but especially she was without mercy.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

247. “You’ve got an awfully kissable mouth.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

248. “New friends,” he said, as if it were an important point, “can often have a better time together than old friends.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

249. “The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day’s last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

250. “When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald