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The Great Gatsby QUOTES

The Great Gatsby QUOTES

1 " I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby

2 " So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby

3 " I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby

4 " Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby

5 " I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby

6 " I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby

7 " Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby

8 " I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby

9 " So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby

10 " By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby

11 " Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby

12 " He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby

13 " I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby

14 " Human sympathy has its limits. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby

15 " They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby

16 " Let us learn how to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead' he suggested, 'After that my own rule is to let everything alone'. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby

17 " Breathing dreams like air "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby

18 " Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby

19 " It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby

20 " A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up towards the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-coloured rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea. "

― F. Scott Fitzgerald , The Great Gatsby