Quotes from F Scott Fitzgerald

In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses--

Well, I've had a very bad time, Nick, and I'm pretty cynical about everything.

And as I walked on I was lonely no longer. I was a guide, a pathfinder, an original settler.

All things come to him who mates.

We all must try to be good.

Collis, unaware that he was without a wedding garment, heralded his arrival with: I reckon I'm late--the beyed has flown.

While the rain continued it had seemed like the murmur of their voices, rising and swelling a little now and then with gusts of emotion.

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.' 'How pleasant then to be insane!

Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity, and you know it. But in English you can't be heroic and gallant without being a little absurd, and you know that too.