Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effo — 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
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
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people — 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 was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. — 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 a — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightene — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I th — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over — 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
Human sympathy has its limits. — 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
Let us learn how to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead' he suggested, 'After that m — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Breathing dreams like air — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby