the great gatsby quotes

Cards (17)

  • "The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are upon him" - Narrator
  • “I hope she’ll be a fool. That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” 
  • 'Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!'
  • 'Your wife doesn't love you. She's never loved you. She loves me.'
  • '...if we don't look out, the white race will be- will be utterly submerged. It's all scientific stuff; it's been proved.'
  • So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past
  • "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us."
  • “They're a rotten crowd...You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
  • “I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
  • “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
  • "They're a rotten crowd...You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."
  • "They're a rotten crowd...You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."
  • "I lived at West Egg, the—well, the less fashionable of the two
  • “People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.”
  • “I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.”
  • Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.
  • “His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.”