Quotes by F Scott Fitzgerald

Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee...

#Life

Never confuse activity with action

#Action

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things...

#Happiness

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

#Family

Though the Jazz Age continued, it became less and less of an affair of youth....

#Age, #Funny, #Jazz

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic...

#Success

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as...

#Success

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in...

#Intelligence

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race,...

#Intelligence

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The...

#Age

Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

#Writers

His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted...

#Parents