Gatsby-Quotes

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


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


  Nick
• "Her voice is full of money."


  Gatsby
• "I didn't want you to think I was jus some nobody. You see. I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad thing that happened to me."


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


  Tom
• "You always look so cool."

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


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

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


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


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


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

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


  Tom
• "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter-tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther..."


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


  Nick
• "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 suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that's the idea you can count me out..."


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


  Wilson
• "When we were at a house-party together up in Warwich, she left a borrowed car out in the rain with the top down, and then lied about it." (spoken about)

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


  Daisy
• "He was a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and supercilious manner." (spoken about)


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

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

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


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


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


  Myrtle
• "I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before" - Jay Gatsby
• "The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun, and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music." - Nick Carraway
• Wasn't


  The past tense of "is not" and is used to negate a statement about the past. Implies that something definitely did not happen, with no room for uncertainty.
• Might


  Expresses a possibility or uncertainty about something that happened in the past. Implies that there is a chance that something could have happened, but it's not certain.