F. Scott Quotes

The truth was that Jay Gatsby...sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

The rich get richer and the poor get children. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Middle West now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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