Great Gastby Quotes

• "I married him because I thought he was a gentleman."


  Myrtle
• "I've been here too long. I want to get away. My wife and I want to go west."


  Wilson
• "I just remembered that today's my birthday."


  Nick
• "I decided to go east and learn the bond business."


  Nick
• "Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."


  Wolfsheim
• "She's a Catholic, and they don't believe in divorce." (spoken about)


  Daisy
• "He was his wife's man and not his own." (spoken about)


  Wilson
• "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
• "I was responsible because no one else was interested."


  Nick
• "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us.

  Nick
• "Its up to us who are the dominate race to watch out or these other races will have control of other things"


  Tom
• "Do you think everything will please her old sport?"

  Gatsby
• "I cant stand my husband the only crazy thing I did was marry him."


  Daisy
• "Cant repeat the past?... Why of course you can!"

  Gatsby
• "He was crazy enough to kill me if I hadn't told him who owned the car."


  Tom
• "Oh, you want me too much!... I love you know-isn't that enough?"


  Daisy
• "They're a rotten crowd... You're worth the whole damn bunch bit together."


  Nick
• "You always look so cool."


  Daisy
• "By God, I may be old fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me."


  Tom
• "Her voice is full of money."


  Gatsby
• "I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."


  Nick
• "Of course she might have loved him jus for a minute...In any case...it was just personal."

  Gatsby
• "so we beat on...ceaselessly into the past"


  For all of us life is about constantly having to Will ourselves into eternal optimism in the face of a lucid dreams or challenging goals we are always circling around and back but probably never quite make it
• "gothic library...one brick was removed ... liable to collapse"


  represents gatsby facade... one thing removed and the whole story will crumble
• "he smiled understandingly"


  Much more than understandingly... rare smiles
• men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars


  glamour of gatsby's house and parties
• "in his blue gardens"


  unnatural for a garden
• "Fantastic farm... Ashes grow like wheat into... Grotesque gardens... Take the form of houses"


  The valley of ashes
• "one slice in a long white cake of apartment-houses"


  Creates the idea that this apartment is part of Tom's whole life i.e. the whole cake at his house was described this apartment is described as a slice of it.
• " frosted wedding cake of the ceiling"


  Helps to establish white as a colour associated with wealth. Wedding cakes tend to be white and suggests that their house has many floors (or tiers) much like a wedding cake. The expensive white items of the Buchanans life starkly contrast to the greys in the Valley of Ashes.