Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald | Novelist & Essayist

Quotes by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald | American Novelist, Essayist, Short Story Writer, and Screenwriter |

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”

[Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald | Novelist & Essayist @Fitzgerald_Says]

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[Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald | Novelist & Essayist @Fitzgerald_Says]

I'm a cynical idealist.

[Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald | Novelist & Essayist @Fitzgerald_Says]

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

[Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald | Novelist & Essayist @Fitzgerald_Says]

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

[Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald | Novelist & Essayist @Fitzgerald_Says]

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

[Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald | Novelist & Essayist @Fitzgerald_Says]

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.

[Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald | Novelist & Essayist @Fitzgerald_Says]

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.

[Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald | Novelist & Essayist @Fitzgerald_Says]

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him.

[Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald | Novelist & Essayist @Fitzgerald_Says]

It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.

[Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald | Novelist & Essayist @Fitzgerald_Says]

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

[Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald | Novelist & Essayist @Fitzgerald_Says]

Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

[Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald | Novelist & Essayist @Fitzgerald_Says]

There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.

[Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald | Novelist & Essayist @Fitzgerald_Says]

It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.

[Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald | Novelist & Essayist @Fitzgerald_Says]

So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

[Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald | Novelist & Essayist @Fitzgerald_Says]

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

[Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald | Novelist & Essayist @Fitzgerald_Says]

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

[Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald | Novelist & Essayist @Fitzgerald_Says]

Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!

[Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald | Novelist & Essayist @Fitzgerald_Says]

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

[Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald | Novelist & Essayist @Fitzgerald_Says]

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

[Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald | Novelist & Essayist @Fitzgerald_Says]

There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.

[Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald | Novelist & Essayist @Fitzgerald_Says]

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.