First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

Quote by F Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: F Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how...

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how...

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next...

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next...

Action is character.

Action is character.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest...

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest...

You can stroke people with words.

You can stroke people with words.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest...

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest...

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What...

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What...

There are no second acts in American lives.

There are no second acts in American lives.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like...

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like...

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement -- discouragement has a germ of its own,...

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement -- discouragement has a germ of its own,...

Family quarrels are bitter things. They dont go according to any rules. Theyre not like...

Family quarrels are bitter things. They dont go according to any rules. Theyre not like...

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people,...

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people,...

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present...

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present...

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they...

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they...

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have...

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have...

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something...

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something...

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.

I love her and that's the beginning of everything.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest...

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest...

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours....

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours....

BETTER TO HAVE LOVED AND LOST THEN TO HAVE NEVER LOVED AT ALL

BETTER TO HAVE LOVED AND LOST THEN TO HAVE NEVER LOVED AT ALL