The Great Gatsby is a great novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and was published in year 1925.
This novel recounts the narrative of Jay Gatsby, a rich man who falls in love with Daisy Buchanan, and their life on Long Island during the Jazz Age.
Below is a collection of greatest quotes from The Great Gatsby for you.
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The Great Gatsby Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“It takes two to make an accident.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“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.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby
“Every one 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.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“He snatched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast now for his burred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“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).
“I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
Best The Great Gatsby Quotes
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great 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).
“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don’t in the beginning.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“Breathing dreams like air.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“The rich get richer and the poor get – children.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
Famous The Great Gatsby Quotes
“For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened – then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“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).
“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great 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).
“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“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.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
Most Popular The Great Gatsby Quotes
“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.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“She was incurably dishonest.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great 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).
“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
Profound Great Gatsby Quotes
“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” ~ Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby
“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
“His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby).
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