Quotes Flashcards
Nick
‘I’m inclined to reserve all judgements’
‘At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others’
‘I had reached the point of believing everything and nothing about him’
‘You can’t repeat the past’
Daisy
‘Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, and bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth’
‘that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool’
‘as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire’
Tom
‘He was a sturdy straw-haired man of thirty, with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner’
‘Civilization’s going to pieces’
‘An Oxford man!’ He was incredulous. ‘Like hell he is! He wears a pink suit.’
‘I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife’
‘Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions, and next they’ll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white’
Gatsby
‘He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way’
‘A promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy’s wing’
‘I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before’
‘She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved any one except me!’
‘Just tell him the truth - that you never loved him - and it’s all wiped out forever’
Jordan
‘She was a slender, small-breasted girl, with an erect carriage, which she accentuated by throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet’
‘You live in West Egg,’ she remarked contemptuously. ‘I know somebody there.’
‘They’ll keep out of my way,’ she insisted. ‘It takes two to make an accident.’
Myrtle
‘I married him because I thought he was a gentleman,’ she said finally. ‘I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe.’
George
‘He was a blond, spiritless man, anaemic, and faintly handsome’
Meyer Wolfshiem
‘A small, flat-nosed Jew raised his head and regarded me with two fine growths of hair which luxuriated in either nostril’
Dan Cody, Mr Gatz, Owl Eyes, East Egg
‘A grey, florid man with a hard, empty face’
‘A solemn old man, very helpless and dismayed, bundled up in a long cheap ulster against the warm September day’
‘This fella’s a regular Belasco’
‘East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gaiety’
