Chapter 3 quotes Flashcards
‘In his blue gardens…
… men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars’
‘On Monday, eight servants…
…including an extra gardener toiled all day with mops and scrubbing brushes and hammers and garden sheers, repairing the ravages of the night before’
‘The bar is in full swing…
…and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is live with chatter and laughter, and casual innuendos and introductions forgotten on the spot and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each others names’
‘I had actually been…
…invited. A chauffer in a uniform of robin’s-egg blue crossed my lawn earlier that Saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note […] - signed Jay Gatsby, in a majestic hand’
’ “Absolutely real- …
… have pages and everything […] This fella’s a regular Belasco” ‘
‘By midnight the hilarity…
…increased. A celebrated tenor had sung in Italian, and a notorious contralto had sung in Jazz, and between the numbers of people doing “stunts” all over the garden, while happy, vacuous bursts of laughter rose towards the summer sky’
‘We talked for a moment about some wet…
… grey little villages in France. Evidently, he lived in this vicinity, for he told me that he’d just brought a hydroplane and was going to try it out in the morning. “Want to go with me, Old Sport? Just near the shore along the Sound” ‘
‘It was one of those…
… rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it’
‘An elegant…
… young roughneck’
‘She had drunk a quantity…
… of champagne, and during the course of her song, decided, ineptly, that everything was very, very sad - she was not only singing, she was weeping too’
‘Philadelphia wants…
… you on the phone sir’
’ “Back out”…
…he suggested after a moment. “Put her in reverse” “But the wheel’s off!” ‘
‘I began to like New York…
… the racy, adventurous feel of it at night’
‘At the enchanted metropolitan…
… twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes’
‘You’re a rotten…
… driver’
