GREAT GATSBY SAYINGS QUOTES

“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone … just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” – Nick Carraway

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” – 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.” – Daisy Buchanan

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us.” – Nick Carraway

“Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.” – Nick Carraway

“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 anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.'” – Nick Carraway

“I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” – Jordan Baker

“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.” – Nick Carraway

“He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.” – Nick Carraway

“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.” – Nick Carraway

“The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself.” – Nick Carraway CHRISTMAS QUOTES ABOUT BOOKS

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.” – Jordan Baker

“You can’t repeat the past.” – Jay Gatsby

“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.” – Jordan Baker

“The world was created by men like that… Men who can’t take care of themselves and who are constantly surrounded by people who do everything for them.” – Meyer Wolfsheim

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – Daisy Buchanan

“Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!” – Jay Gatsby

“Civilization’s going to pieces. I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. Have you read ‘The Rise of the Colored Empires’ by this man Goddard?” – Tom Buchanan

“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” – Nick Carraway

“Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.” – Nick Carraway