Best Gatsby Quotes

47 Gatsby quotes by 31 unique authors

If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Don Quixote and Gatsby and… — Jodi Picoult
I’ve been thinking I’d like to be Daisy; I’d like to have someone like Gatsby stare at my house for whole years and never stop… — Koren Zailckas
In these fast and fickle times, it’s nice to know that there are some things you can always count on: the enduring brilliance of the… — Sarah Vowell
i could have told him to learn from Gatsby. from the lonely, isolated Gatsby, who also tried to retrieve his past and give flash and… — Azar Nafisi
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 -… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this… — Azar Nafisi
Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room… — Haruki Murakami
The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
This is our siblings of more famous BookWorld Personalities self-help group expalined Loser (Gatsby). That's Sharon Eyre, the younger and wholly disreputable sister of Jane;… — Jasper Fforde
Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
in the last month or so, i have read the great gatsby and a separate peace. i am starting to see a real trend in… — Stephen Chbosky
Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me. — Rob Sheffield
The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a… — Ernest Hemingway
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… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sydney had been horrified to discover my home library consisted of a bartending dictionary and an old copy of Esquire, and at her pleading, I'd… — Richelle Mead
His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dress like Jackie. Act like Audrey. Inspire like Lilly. Party like Gatsby. — Babloo
I'm nasty, so come right at me, I am, fresh to death shit I'm great like Gatsby. — Chris Webby
As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby… — Michael Cunningham

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