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.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow olderโintelligence and good manners.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.
F. Scott FitzgeraldShe was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game
F. Scott FitzgeraldI'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen.
F. Scott Fitzgerald