F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes on People (10 Quotes)

It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love.

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy-they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro's troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles of the Montenegrin people. It appreciated fully the chain of national circumstances, which had elicited this tribute from Montenegro's warm little heart. My incredulity was submerged in fascination now; it was like skimming hastily through a dozen magazines.

It isn't given for us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

Whenever you feel like criticising anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited - they went there.

Progress was a labyrinth . . . people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it.

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.