The Great Gatsby Quotes Flashcards
Gatsby quote about the past.
“Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can.”
Gatsby rumour quotes.
“Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once,”
“He’s a bootlegger.”
“he was a German spy during the war.”
Gatsby soldier quote.
“A young major just out of the army and covered over with medals he got in the war.”
Gatsby end quote.
“Gatsby turned out all right at the end”
Gatsby war quote.
“He did extraordinarily well in the war.”
Gatsby dream quote.
“paid a high price for living too long with a single dream”
Gatsby personality quote.
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him”
Gatsby lying quote.
“I knew why Jordan Baker had believed he was lying.”
Gatsby revalue quote.
“I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.”
Gatsby quote about his parents.
“I am the son of some wealthy people in the middle-west”
Nick quote about Gatsby.
“Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.”
Nick quote about the guests.
“I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited.”
Nick quote about life.
“I was without and within, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
Nick quote about race.
“a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes.”
Nick quote about honesty.
“I am one of the few honest people I have ever known.”
Nick quote about love.
“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
Daisy quote about her daughter.
“I hope she’ll be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world , a beautiful fool.”
Nick about the world.
“I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention for ever”
Daisy description quote.
“Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright, passionate mouth.”
Daisy pressure quote.
“She was feeling the pressure of the world”
Daisy life quote.
“She wanted her life shaped now, immediately”
Daisy quote about shirts.
“It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such - such beautiful shirts before.”
Tom quote about race.
“The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be - will be utterly submerged. It’s all scientific stuff, it’s been proved.”
Tom violence quote.
“Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.”
Wolfsheim description quote.
“A small, flat-nosed Jew.”
Wolfsheim quote about Gatsby.
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
Wolfsheim description quote.
“His nostrils turned to me in an interested way.”
Wolfsheim gambler quote.
“he’s a gambler”
Wolfsheim fixed quote.
“He’s the man who fixed the World’s Series back in 1919.”
Wolfsheim opportunity quote.
“He just saw the opportunity.”
Myrtle quote about George.
“I married him because I thought he was a gentleman…I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe.”
Owl Eyes description quote.
“A stout, middle-aged man with enormous owl-eyed spectacles”
West Egg description quote.
“I lived at West Egg, the - well, the less fashionable of the two,”
East Egg description quote.
“The white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water”
