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.

  • 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.

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

  • The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

  • The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.