F. Scott Fitzgerald's 10 Most Amazing Quotes

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

There was nothing, it seemed, that grew stale so soon as pleasure.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Bright unused beauty still plagued her in the mirror.

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.

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

The world of simple desires and their fulfillments, and he was inept and uncertain.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

The strongest should come first in comedy because once a character is really established as funny everything he does is funny.

Family quarrels are bitter things.  They don't go by 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.

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.

Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.

Beware of losing yourself in the personality of another being, man or woman

Very few things matter and nothing matters very much.