The Great Gatsby Quotes Flashcards
“I’m inclined…
To reserve all judgements” Nick
“Two shining arrogate eyes had established dominance over his face… Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes…
could hide the enormous power of that body… It was a body capable of enormous leverage - a cruel body” Nick of Tom
“The only stationary object in the room was an enormous couch at which the two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon…
They were both in white and their dresses were rippling and fluttering.” Daisy and Jordan
“Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it…
Bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was ana excitement in her voice that men who cared for her found difficult to forget” Daisy
“He stretched out his arms towards the dark water in a curious way…
Involuntarily I glanced seaward- and distinguished nothing but except a single green light that might have been the end of a dock”‘gatsby
“This is the valley of ashes - a fantastic far where ashes grow like wheat…
Into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens”
“The eyes of doctor T.J. eckleburg are blue and gigantic…
Their retinas are one yard high.”
“She was in her thirties and fairly stout…
But carried her flesh sensuously as some women can”
“Several old copies of town tattle…
Lay on the table”
“Her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently affected moment by moment…
And as she expanded the room grew smaller around her, until she seemed to be revolving on a noisy, creaking pivot through the smokey air”
“He had on a dress suit and patent leather shoes…
And I couldn’t keep my eyes off him”
“Making a short deft movement…
Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand”
“With Jordan’s slender golden arm resting in mine…
We descended the steps and sauntered about the garden”
“You look at him sometimes when he thinks nobody’s looking…
At him. I’ll bet he’s killed a man”
“It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of reassurance in it…
That you may come across four or five times in life”
“I wasn’t actually in love…
But felt a sort of tender curiosity”
“Dishonesty in a woman is never…
Something you blame deeply - I was casually sorry then I forgot”
“The largest of the banners…
And the largest of the lawns belonged to Daisy Fay’s house”
“Next day at five o’clock she married…
Tom Buchanan without so much as a shiver”
“They moved with a fast crowd, aloof them young and rich and wild…
But she came out with an absolutely perfect reputation”
“He came alive to me…
Delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour”
“Gatsby, pale as death, with his hand plunged like weights in his coat pockets…
Was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes”
“While the rain continued, it had seemed like…
The murmur of their voices, rising and swelling a little now and then with gusts of emotion”
“Suddenly, with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head into the shirts…
and began to cry stormily “they’re such beautiful shirts”
