SHORT GREAT GATSBY QUOTES

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” – Chapter 9

“I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” – Chapter 1

“I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” – Chapter 3

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.” – Chapter 8

“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,’ he told me, ‘just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.'” – Chapter 1

“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.” – Chapter 2

“Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!” – Chapter 6

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” – Chapter 2

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties, there isn’t any privacy.” – Chapter 3

“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.” – Chapter 5

“I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever.” – Chapter 5

“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.” – Chapter 9 SAD QUOTES ABOUT BEING BROKEN

“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.” – Chapter 3

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.” – Chapter 4

“The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself.” – Chapter 6

“I like big parties. They’re so intimate. Small parties, there isn’t enough privacy.” – Chapter 3

“I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone’s away. There’s something very sensuous about it—overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.” – Chapter 7

“Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry ‘Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!'” – Chapter 4

“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.” – Chapter 1

“He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. 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.” – Chapter 3

“Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.” – Chapter 1

“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.” – Chapter 1

“She was the first “nice” girl he had ever known. In various unrevealed capacities he had come in contact with such people but always with indiscernible barbed wire between.” – Chapter 4