The Great Gatsby Quotes Flashcards
“Come on Daisy… I’ll take you in this circus wagon.”
Tom
“[Violently] civilisation’s gone to pieces.”
Tom
“The white race will be utterly submerged. It’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.”
Tom
“The less fashionable of the two.”
Nick - describing West Egg.
“A colossal affair.”
Nick - describing Gatsby’s house.
“Her voice glowing and singing.”
Nick - describing Daisy.
“Then suddenly she threw her napkin on the table…”
Nick - describing Daisy.
“Both in white, their dresses rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back after a short flight around the house.”
Nick - describing Daisy and Jordan.
“An absurd, charming little laugh.”
Nick - describing Daisy.
“… A brute of a man, a great, big, hulking physical specimen…”
Daisy - describing Tom.
“She told me it was a girl and so I turned my head around and wept.”
Daisy
“I hope she’ll be a fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
Daisy
“Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.”
Nick - describing Tom striking Myrtle.
“[Shouting] Daisy, Daisy, Daisy… I’ll say it whenever I want to.”
Myrtle
“… While happy, vacuous bursts of laughter rose towards the summer sky.”
Tom - describing one of Gatsby’s parties.
“… It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it , that you may come across four or five times in life.”
Nick - describing Gatsby’s smile.”
“… With an irresistible prejudice in your favour.”
Nick - describing Gatsby’s smile.
“… Precisely at that point it vanished.”
Nick - describing Gatsby’s smile.
“I’d got a strong impression that he was picking his words with care.”
Nick - describing Gatsby.
“… and half an hour later, the pearls were around her neck and the incident was over… [the] next day she married Tom Buchanan without so much as a shiver.”
Jordan - talking about Daisy.
“They moved with a fast crowd, all of them young and rich and wild.”
Jordan - talking about the Buchanan’s, specifically Daisy.
“You can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don’t see or care.”
Jordan
“… perhaps Daisy never went in for armour at all, and yet there’s something in that voice of hers…”
Jordan - talking about Daisy’s persona in her social circles.
He’s afraid, he’s waited so long.”
Jordan - talking about Gatsby meeting Daisy again.
“Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.”
Jordan - talking about Gatsby.
“… then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night.”
Jordan - talking about Gatsby.
“He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.”
Jordan - talking about Gatsby.
“Who is Tom? She asked innocently.”
Daisy - when Nick invited her to tea.
