Gatsby Quotations

Reserving Judgments is a matter of infinite hope.

• says Nick carraway

• says Jay Gatsby

• says Tom Buchanon

• says Jordan Baker

Tom's got some woman in New York

• says Daisy Buchanon

• says Jordan Baker

• says Nick Carraway

• says Jay Gatsby

.. completely motionless, and with her chin raised a little as if she was balancing something...

• Nick musing about Daisy

• Nick musing about Jordan

I decided to go east and learn the bond business.

• Jay Gatsby

• Tom Buchanon

• Nick Carraway

• Jordan Baker

...then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together...

• quote about Nick and Gatsby

• quote about Tom and Daisy

• quote about Jordan and her friends

I'm glad she's a girl, and I hope she'll be a fool- that's the best thing that a girl can be in this world, a beautiful fool.

• Jordan about Daisy

• Daisy about Jordan

• Daisy about Pammy

• Pammy about Nick

He was a blond, spiritless man, anemic, and faintly handsome...

• about Nick

• about Tom

• about George

• about Mr. Mckee

He's so dumb he doesn't even know he's alive.

• Tom about George

• Myrtle about George

• Nick about Tom

• George about Mr. Mckee

a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens...

• about West Egg

• about East Egg

• about the valley of the ashes

I married him because I thought he was a gentleman... I though he knew something about breeding, but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe...

• Daisy about Tom

• Myrtle about George

• Mrs. Mckee about Mr. Mckee