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"The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young."

F. Scott Fitzgerald on Romantic

More quotes about Romantic

• "Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."

  William Shakespeare on Romantic

• "Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."

  Oscar Wilde on Romantic

• "The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime."

  Billy Graham on Romantic

• "A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure."

  Charlie Chaplin on Romantic

• "Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw."

  Fran Lebowitz on Romantic

More quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• "Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders."

• "Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art."

• "The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young."

• "Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."

• "Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind."