First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. -F. Scott Fitzgerald Newyears
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. -F. Scott Fitzgerald Great
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. -F. Scott Fitzgerald Sad
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 Time
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. -F. Scott Fitzgerald Men
I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. -F. Scott Fitzgerald Hope
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 Success
I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. -F. Scott Fitzgerald Romantic
Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. -F. Scott Fitzgerald Women
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. -F. Scott Fitzgerald Success
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. -F. Scott Fitzgerald Happiness
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. -F. Scott Fitzgerald Family
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 Romantic
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well. -F. Scott Fitzgerald Intelligence
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 Intelligence
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. -F. Scott Fitzgerald Movies
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions. -F. Scott Fitzgerald Respect
Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. -F. Scott Fitzgerald Power
