Quotes from 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. – Daisy Buchanan

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had. – Nick Carraway

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. – Nick Carraway

I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy. – Jordan Baker

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. – Nick Carraway

It takes two to make an accident. – Jordan Baker

Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. – Nick Carraway

I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. – Jordan Baker

They’re a rotten crowd. You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together. – Nick Carraway

All right… I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. – Daisy Buchanan

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.’ – Nick Carraway

Quotes from The Great Gatsby part 2

You can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can! – Jay Gatsby

The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. – Nick Carraway

I like big parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy. – Jordan Baker

Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away. – Nick Carraway

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired. – Jordan Baker

Can’t repeat the past? Why, of course you can. – Jay Gatsby

I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. – Daisy Buchanan

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. – Nick Carraway

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. – Nick Carraway

Her voice is full of money. – Jay Gatsby

They’re a rotten crowd. You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together! – Nick Carraway

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. – Nick Carraway

I wish I had done everything on earth with you. – Jay Gatsby

It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people. – Jordan Baker

I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others–young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. – Nick Carraway

And I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. – Daisy Buchanan

All right, I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool. – Daisy Buchanan

He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man. – Nick Carraway

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. – Nick Carraway

He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced — or seemed to face — the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself. – Nick Carraway

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry. – Nick Carraway

His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete. – Nick Carraway

There I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute. – Nick Carraway

Jay Gatsby, the letter began, has ‘exerted himself for me.’ – Nick Carraway

It was all very careless and confused. – Jordan Baker

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. – Nick Carraway

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. – Nick Carraway

So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight–watching over nothing. – Nick Carraway

You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together. – Nick Carraway

I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. – Jordan Baker

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. – Nick Carraway

They’re a rotten crowd, I shouted across the lawn. You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together. – Nick Carraway

The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. – Nick Carraway

He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. – Nick Carraway