The Great Gatsby Quotes Flashcards
Nick’s father: prejudice
‘Whenever you feel like criticizing any one… just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.’
Wolfsheim: friendship
‘Let us learn to show friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.’
Tom Buchanan: race
‘the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things.’
Daisy: gender
‘that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.’
Jordan: Nick’s character
‘I don’t like careless people. That’s why I like you.’
Gatsby: past
‘Can’t repeat the past? Why, of course you can!’
Myrtle: disobedience
‘Daisy, Daisy, Daisy! I’ll say it whenever I want to.’
Jordan: the affair
‘Tom’s got some woman in New York.’
Gatsby: illusion
‘It’s a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me.’
Daisy: experience
‘I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything’
Myrtle: her marriage
‘I married him because I thought he was a gentlemen.’
Gatsby: meeting Daisy again
‘He literally glowed’
Rumour: Gatsby
‘Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once.’
Nick: Gatsby’s dream
‘paid a high price for living too long with a single dream’
Nick: Gatsby’s appearance
‘his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God’
Nick: Gatsby’s smile
‘those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it’
Nick: Daisy’s appearance
‘Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright, passionate mouth.’
Gatsby: Daisy’s voice
‘Her voice is full of money.’
Nick: Tom and Daisy’s privilege
‘they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money’
Tom Buchanan: Nick’s character
‘Nick… crazy as hell. I don’t know what’s the matter with you.’
Nick: turning 30
‘Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade…’
Nick: class/etiquette
‘fundamental decencies are parcelled out unequally at birth.’
Nick: virtue
‘I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.’
Tom Buchanan: Jordan’s career
‘they oughtn’t let her run around the country this way.’
Nick: Jordan’s physical description
‘throwing her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet.’
