Key Quotes from The Great Gatsby

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

He smiled understandingly — much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can! – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams – not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

You see, I think everything’s terrible anyhow – everybody thinks so; only difference I’m thinking it. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Key Quotes from The Great Gatsby part 2

I knew it was a great mistake for a man like me to fall in love… – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ‘Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

It takes two to make an accident. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can! – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

All the bright precious things fade so fast… and they don’t come back. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

An hour later the front door opened nervously, and Gatsby, in a white flannel suit, silver shirt, and gold-colored tie, hurried in. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

It’s a crazy old thing, but I believe in luck. And I feel you make your own, don’t you? – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

They’re a rotten crowd. You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: ‘I never loved you.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

I like to come… the party is so fine… and such beautiful shirts… I like your dress… is nice looking… – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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

It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such – such beautiful shirts before. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

He smiled understandingly — much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

You see, I think everything’s terrible anyhow . . . I don’t care. I just happened to be tired of being afraid. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan, I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. ‘Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’ – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby