Gatsby Quotations

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.

I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

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

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

...I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires....

Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

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

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before.

All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

The rich get richer and the poor get - children.

People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.

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

Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember

he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.