Great Gatsby Important Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald and many others.
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter – to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther … And one fine morning —
I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all–Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.
It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.
It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.
I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.
I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
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.
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.
but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game
It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such–such beautiful shirts before.
I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others–young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
Feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember
