F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

F. Scott Fitzgerald
American Author
Born: Sep 24, 1896
Died: Dec 21, 1940
Life Man Own People You Youth
Related authors: Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joseph Campbell Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Time Intelligence Mind Ability Retain Ideas First-Rate Still Test Opposed Same Same Time Hold Function Two
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Family Skin Enough Rules Bitter Wounds More Splits Like Heal Because Material Quarrels Go According Any Aches Things
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. F. Scott Fitzgerald
New Year's You First Drink Take Takes Then
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Inspirational Ability Vitality Only Over Persist Shows Start
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Good Writing Water Holding Breath Swimming Good Writing Your
You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. F. Scott Fitzgerald
You Say Something Write Because Want
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. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Happiness Life Struggle Defeat Pleasure Those Out Cheat Come Redeeming Conditions Essentially Deeper Things
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sad You Memory Past Harmonious Elude Find Remain Sadder Conception Forever Than Again Inadequate Present
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Day Morning Soul Dark Three Always Real After Night
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
You Natural Discipline Power Think Others Else Take Tastes Either Your
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Success Great Girl Pretty Girl Carefully Pretty She Were Plain Social Success Is Who Her Cards Plays
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside. F. Scott Fitzgerald
God Me Heart People Inside Wear Put Like Where Them
I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Me Library Thought Drunk Sit About Week Been Up Sober Might Now

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