F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

F. Scott Fitzgerald (Novelist of the Jazz Age, 1896 – 1940). Below are 4 quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald from QuotePlace, each as a text quote card.

Novelist of the Jazz Age · 1896 – 1940

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American novelist whose masterpiece The Great Gatsby (1925) became the defining portrait of the Jazz Age and is now ranked among the greatest American novels. His other works include This Side of Paradise (1920) and Tender Is the Night (1934). He died in Hollywood at 44, believing himself a failure, shortly before Gatsby's posthumous canonization.

Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

1.So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
2.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.
3.There are no second acts in American lives.
4.Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Quote Gallery

Explore more: Life quotes · Wisdom quotes · Abraham Lincoln quotes · Albert Camus quotes · Albert Einstein quotes · 100 best quotes · Most famous quotes · All authors