Great Gatsby Book Quotes:

People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.28, e-artnow

topic: Feet, People, Great Gatsby Book, Great Gatsby Gatsby

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2003). “The Great Gatsby”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

topic: Great Gatsby American Dream, Great Gatsby Book, Great Gatsby Important, Great Gatsby Gatsby, Serfs

His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)

topic: Dream, Green Lights, Docks, Great Gatsby American Dream, Great Gatsby Book

He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. 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. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. 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.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Believe, Quality, Prejudice, Reassurance, Great Gatsby Book

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Life Is, Window, Great Gatsby Book, Great Gatsby Gatsby, Great Gatsby Nick

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Loneliness In Life, Lonely And Alone, Lonely Feeling, Lonely World, Feeling Lonely

There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.57, F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Dream, Passion, Heart, Creative Passion, Gatsby Love

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.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: The Great Gatsby ch. 3 (1925)

topic: Honesty, People, Virtue, Great Gatsby Book, Great Gatsby Gatsby

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Men, Race, Differences, Great Gatsby Book

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Bridges, Cities, Promise, Cities In The World, Skylines

Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

topic: Dream, Men, Dust, Great Gatsby American Dream, Great Gatsby Book

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Love, Heart, Men, Freshness, Gatsby Love

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Inspirational, Time, Powerful, Jazz Age, Great Literature

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Inspirational, Beautiful, Girl, Assonance, Gatsby Love

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Cute, Friendship, Men, Great Literary, Great Gatsby American Dream

Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925).

topic: Great Literature, Old Money, Gatsby Love, Great Gatsby American Dream, Great Gatsby Book

If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby: The Authentic Edition from Fitzgerald’s Original Publisher: The authentic edition from Fitzgerald’s original publisher”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

topic: Dream, Long, World, Great Gatsby American Dream, Great Gatsby Book

One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get — children. In the meantime, In between time...

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Time, Children, Rich, Riches And Poors, Great Gatsby Book

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Fall, Autumn, Positivity, Summer To Fall, Fall Autumn

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Simple, Confusion, Mind, Great Gatsby Book, Simple Minds

It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.104, Broadview Press

topic: Inspirational, Drinking, Recovery, Irregularity, Drinks And Love

You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Trying, Forget, Stranger, Sad Things, Great Gatsby Book

He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about...like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: "The Great Gatsby". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chapter 8, 1925.

topic: Dream, Real, Sky, Great Gatsby American Dream, Great Gatsby Book

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.40, e-artnow

topic: Dishonesty, Blame, Great Gatsby Love, Gatsby Love, Great Gatsby Book

he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Rose, Sunlight, Grass, Great Gatsby American Dream, Great Gatsby Book

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Successful, Personality, Unbroken, Great Gatsby American Dream, Great Gatsby Book

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.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Thankful, Attitude, Kindness, Jazz Age, Great Literature

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: Source: www.mirror.co.uk

topic: Father, Years, Advice, Great Literature, Great Father

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Tired, Busy, Great Gatsby American Dream, Great Gatsby Book, Great Gatsby Gatsby

I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. [- Nick Carroway]

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)

topic: Dream, Light, Long, Great Gatsby American Dream, Great Gatsby Book

I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Philosophy, Enchanted, Variety, Great Gatsby Book, Great Gatsby Gatsby

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Summer, Conviction, Familiar, Summer Inspirational, Summer Is Coming

They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.119, Atlântico Press

topic: Friendship, Together, Rotten, Great Gatsby Book, Great Gatsby Gatsby

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Book, Drunk, Library, Great Gatsby Book, Great Gatsby Gatsby

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

topic: Successful, Earthquakes, Personality, Great Gatsby Book, Great Gatsby Important

And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: The Great Gatsby ch. 3 (1925)

topic: Great Gatsby Book, Great Gatsby Gatsby, Hostesses

Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Sorry, Half, Angry, Gatsby Love, Great Gatsby Book

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Love, Curiosity, Affection, Gatsby Love, Great Gatsby Book

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 ---

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: Great Gatsby (1925) ch. 9

topic: Running, Morning, Years, Great Literature, Old Money

Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered “Listen,” a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.13, e-artnow

topic: Eye, Gay, Men, Great Gatsby Book, Bright Eyes

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Summer, Sunshine, Tree, Summer Inspirational, Summer Is Coming

Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Book House (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.383, Book House

topic: Remember, Great Gatsby Love, Great Father, Great Literature, Gatsby Love