Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Next quotes

• F. Scott Fitzgerald:

  The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

• F. Scott Fitzgerald:

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

• F. Scott Fitzgerald:

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

• F. Scott Fitzgerald:

  No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

• F. Scott Fitzgerald:

  Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

• F. Scott Fitzgerald:

  Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

• F. Scott Fitzgerald:

  You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

• F. Scott Fitzgerald:

  There are no second acts in American lives.

• F. Scott Fitzgerald:

  Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

• F. Scott Fitzgerald:

  Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.