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--

We all must try to be good.

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.

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

They made no love that day, but when he left her outside the sad door on the Zurichsee and she turned and looked at him he knew her problem was one they had together for good now.

To hold a man a woman has to appeal to the worst in him. This sentence was the thesis of most of his bad nights, of which he felt this was to be one. His mind had already started to play variations on the subject. Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush - these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment for the loss of his youth - bitter calomel under the thin sugar of love's exaltation.

But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness.