The Great Gatsby Quotes

09/04/2020

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The Great Gatsby is the third novel written by an American writer Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (F. Scott Fitzgerald), best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age and was published in 1925 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. This novel has had four-film adaptations – 1949, 1974, 2000 and the recent version is in the year 2013 lead by the greatest actor Leonardo DiCaprio. The novel/movie tells the tragic story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman whom he loved in his youth. The Great Gatsby Quotes is a compilation of surprised, confused and unbridled passion of Jay Gatsby.

Top 12 of Jay Gatsby The Great Gatsby Quotes

“In his blue gardens, men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald _ The Great Gatsby _ Jay Gatsby
“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald _ The Great Gatsby _ Jay Gatsby
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald _ The Great Gatsby _ Jay Gatsby
“Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald _ The Great Gatsby _ Jay Gatsby
“Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money—that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald _ The Great Gatsby _ Jay Gatsby
“It was testimony to the romantic speculation [Gatsby] inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald _ The Great Gatsby _ Jay Gatsby
I was looking at an elegant young roughneck, a year or two over thirty, whose elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald _ The Great Gatsby _ Jay Gatsby
There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald _ The Great Gatsby _ Jay Gatsby
“I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald _ The Great Gatsby _ Jay Gatsby
“His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch, she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald _ The Great Gatsby _ Jay Gatsby
“Can’t repeat the past?… Why of course you can!”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald _ The Great Gatsby _ Jay Gatsby
“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others–young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald _ The Great Gatsby _ Jay Gatsby

Top 5 of Daisy Buchanan The Great Gatsby Quotes

She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. ‘All right,’ I said, ‘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.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald _ The Great Gatsby _ Daisy Buchanan _ Chapter 1
“They’re such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such—such beautiful shirts before.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald _ The Great Gatsby _ Daisy Buchanan _ Chapter 5
“What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon,” cried Daisy, “and the day after that, and the next thirty years?”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald _ The Great Gatsby _ Daisy Buchanan _ Chapter 7
“Oh, you want too much!” she cried to Gatsby. “I love you now—isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past.” She began to sob helplessly. “I did love him once—but I loved you too.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald _ The Great Gatsby _ Daisy Buchanan _ Chapter 7
I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything. I’ve had a very bad time, Nicky. I’m pretty cynical about everything.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald _ The Great Gatsby _ Daisy Buchanan _ Chapter 3

Theme: (Love and Marriage) The Great Gatsby Quotes

Why they came east I don’t know. They had spent a year in France, for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestful wherever people played polo and were rich together.
“I married him because I thought he was a gentleman,” she said finally. “I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe.”
“Crazy about him!” cried Myrtle incredulously. “Who said I was crazy about him? I never was any crazier about him than I was about that man there.”
Generally, he was one of these worn-out men: when he wasn’t working he sat on a chair in the doorway and stared at the people and the cars that passed along the road. When anyone spoke to him he invariably laughed in an agreeable, colorless way. He was his wife’s man and not his own.
“Beat me!” he heard her cry. “Throw me down and beat me, you dirty little coward!” A moment later she rushed out into the dusk, waving her hands and shouting; before he could move from his door the business was over
“We haven’t met for many years,” said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be. “Five years next November.”
“[H]e gave her a string of pearls . . . I was a bridesmaid. . . . She…pulled out the . . . pearls . . . “Take ’em down-stairs and give ’em back to whoever they belong to. Tell ’em all Daisy’s change’ her mine. Say: ‘Daisy’s change’ her mind!’”
“He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.”
“Neither of them can stand the person they’re married to…. What I say is, why go on living with them if they can’t stand them? If I was them I’d get a divorce and get married to each other right away.”
“For a while, I lost sight of Jordan Baker, and then in midsummer, I found her again . . . . I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”

Theme: (Glitz, Glamour, and Despair) The Great Gatsby Quotes

“She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.”
“They’re a rotten crowd… You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
“Their eyes met and they stared together at each other, alone in space.”
“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 like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties, there isn’t any privacy.”
“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.”
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
“Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.”
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
“It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.”
Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people.”
“Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther….”

2012 Great Gatsby Movies Trailer

A movie-trailer with a short and awesome quotes!

Inspiring The Great Gatsby Quotes (movie 2013)

“I knew that when I kissed this girl, I would be forever wed to her.”
– Leonardo DiCaprio – Jay Gatsby
“Gatsby’s real name was James Gatz. His parents were dirt-poor farmers from North Dakota, but he never accepted them as his parents at all. In his own imagination, he was a son of God, destined for future glory.”
– Tobey Maguire – Nick Carraway
“I didn’t want you to think I was just some nobody.”
– Leonardo DiCaprio – Jay Gatsby
“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time. In its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”
– Tobey Maguire – Nick Carraway
“His smile was one of those rare smiles that you may come across four or five times in life. It seemed to understand you and believe in you just as you would love to be understood and believed in.”
– Tobey Maguire – Nick Carraway
“We can’t lose each other and let all this glorious love end in nothing. Come home. I’ll be here waiting and hoping for every long dream of you to come true.”
– Carey Mulligan – Daisy Buchanan
In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice. “Always try to see the best in people”, he would say. As a consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgments. But even I have a limit.
– Tobey Maguire – Nick Carraway
“I hope she’ll be a fool. That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
– Carey Mulligan – Daisy Buchanan
“Life is something you dominate, Nick. If you’re any good.”
– Joel Edgerton – Tom Buchanan
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy. They smashed up things and people, and then retreated back into their money and their vast carelessness.”
– Tobey Maguire – Nick Carraway
“Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther and one fine morning. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
– Tobey Maguire – Nick Carraway
“I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything. I’ve had a very bad time, Nicky. I’m pretty cynical about everything.”
– Carey Mulligan – Daisy Buchanan
“All the bright precious things fade so fast, and they don’t come back.”
– Carey Mulligan – Daisy Buchanan
“The way he looked at her is the way all girls want to be looked at.”
– Elizabeth Debicki – Jordan Baker
“He gives large parties, and I like large parties, they’re so intimate. Small parties, there isn’t any privacy.”
– Elizabeth Debicki – Jordan Baker

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