Great Gatsby Gatsby Quotes - Page 2

• And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Party, Privacy, Host

  The Great Gatsby ch. 3 (1925)

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• The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Life, Lonely, Loneliness

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• The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Father, Mean, Son

  The Great Gatsby ch. 6 (1925)

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• 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. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Confused, Past, Ideas

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.69, e-artnow

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• It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Quality, Four, May

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.38, Atlântico Press

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Tired, Busy, Great Gatsby American Dream

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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• No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Love, Heart, Men

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.74, Atlântico Press

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• Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Running, Green Lights, Arms

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925).

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Thinking, Forever, Great Gatsby Love

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.24, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Love, Curiosity, Affection

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

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• Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Thankful, Kindness, Attitude

  "The Great Gatsby". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925.

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Remember, Great Gatsby Love, Great Father

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Book House (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.383, Book House

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  People, Honest, Great Gatsby Important

  The Great Gatsby ch. 3 (1925)

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• Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Successful, Personality, Unbroken

  The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

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• 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

  Trying, Here And There, Forget

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.52, Atlântico Press

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Cute, Friendship, Men

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.106, e-artnow

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• Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Running, Morning, Years

  Great Gatsby (1925) ch. 9

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• 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

  Honesty, People, Virtue

  The Great Gatsby ch. 3 (1925)

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• They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Friendship, Together, Rotten

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.119, Atlântico Press

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• 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.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Believe, Reassurance, Great Gatsby Book

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.38, Atlântico Press

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Past, Great Gatsby Important, Repeats

  "The Great Gatsby". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925.

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Single, Life Is, Window

  The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

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• So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Twilight, Cooling, Great Gatsby Nick Carraway

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.556, e-artnow

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• It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Drinking, Recovery

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.104, Broadview Press

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Philosophy, Enchanted, Great Gatsby Book

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.29, Atlântico Press

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