Gatsby quotes

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


  Owl Eyes
• "God knows what you've been doing... You may fool me, but you can't fool God"


  George Wilson
• "Let us learn to show friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead"


  Wolshiem
• "Civilisation's going to pieces ... it;s up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things"


  Tom Buchanan
• "That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool"


  Daisy Buchanan
• "It takes two to make an accident. I don't like careless people. That's why I like you"


  Jordan Baker
• "I'd like to get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around"


  Daisy Buchanan
• "It's really his wife that's keeping them apart. She's Catholic and they don't believe in divorce"


  Catherine
• "Can't repeat the past? Why, of course you can"


  Gatsby
• "Daisy, Daisy, Daisy! I'll say it whenever I want to"


  Myrtle
• "Tom's got some woman in New York"


  Jordan Baker
• "I'd like to get one of those dogs"


  Myrtle
• "it's a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me"


  Gatsby
• "Everybody I knew was in the bond business, so I supposed it could support one more single man"


  Nick
• "He went to Oggsford College in England"


  Wolfshiem
• "Jimmy was bound to get ahead"


  Mr Gatz
• "I married him because I thought he was a gentlemen"


  Myrtle
• "Yeah, Gatsby's very careful about women. He would never so much look at a friend's wife"


  Wolfshiem
• "He's the man who fixed the World Series back in 1919"


  Gatsby
• "So we beat on, boats against teh current, borne back ceaselessly into the past"


  Nick
• "They're a rotton crowd ... you're worth the whole damn bunch put together"


  Nick
• "Hard mouth" "arrogant eyes" "leaning aggressively"


  Tom
• "bleak dust" "the wasteland" 


  Valley of Ashes
• "men and girls came and went like moths"


  Nick about Gatsby's parties
• "old sport"


  Gatsby
• "Her voice is full of money"


  Gatsby
• "Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away"


  Nick
• "Formality of speech just missed being absurd" "majestic hand"


  Nick
• "A cheerful red-and-white Georgian colonial mansion"


  Nick about Tom's house
• "I'm inclined to reserve all judgements" "Gatsby, who represents everything for whihc I have an unaffected scorn"


  Nick
• "They oughnt't to let her run around the country this way"


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


  Nick
• "get some chairs, why don't you"


  Myrtle
• "What part of the Middle West?" "San Fransisco"


  Nick and Gatsby
• "I put my arm around Jordan's golden shoulder"


  Nick
• "One of the papers said they thought the rain would stop about four"


  Gatsby
• "A defunct mantelpiece clock"


  description of clock in Nick's house
• "full of aching, grieving beauty"


  Gatsby and Daisy meet again
• "Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily"


  Daisy
• "No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart"


  Nick