F. Scott Fitzgerald

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

art


F. Scott Fitzgerald

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

best


F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.

business


F. Scott Fitzgerald

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

communication


F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.

family


F. Scott Fitzgerald

Forgotten is forgiven.

forgiveness


F. Scott Fitzgerald

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

god


F. Scott Fitzgerald

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

great


F. Scott Fitzgerald

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

great


F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.

happiness


F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

hope


F. Scott Fitzgerald

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.

life


F. Scott Fitzgerald

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

morning


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