Great Gatsby Love Quotes:

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

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 I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007). “The Great Gatsby”, p.141, Broadview Press

topic: Heart, Fool, Great Gatsby Love, Gatsby Love

All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.24, F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Thinking, Forever, Great Gatsby Love, Gatsby Love, Great Gatsby Gatsby

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.83, Oldcastle Books

topic: Past, Great Gatsby Love, Great Gatsby American Dream

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.

- 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.81, e-artnow

topic: Wife, Making Love, Great Gatsby Love, Gatsby Love, Great Gatsby American Dream

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

I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald's letter to Isabelle Amorous, February 1920.

topic: Love, Romantic, Heart, Beginnings And Ends, Time Love

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

Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. --The Sensible Thing

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: World, April, Kind, Kinds Of Love, Same Love

He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was ....

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Confused, Past, Ideas, Gatsby Love, Great Gatsby Gatsby

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

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Love, Beautiful, Wedding, Beautiful Person, Understatement

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

His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: The Great Gatsby ch. 6 (1925)

topic: Girl, Stars, Flower, Literary Love, Gatsby Love

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

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.83, Oldcastle Books

topic: Great Gatsby Love

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

Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table. You always look so cool," she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.95, Cambridge University Press

topic: Eye, Space, Effort, Gatsby Love, Great Gatsby Love

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

He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: The Great Gatsby ch. 6 (1925)

topic: Girl, Forever, Mind, Literary Love, Gatsby Love

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

...I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires....

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Thinking, Desire, Brake, Gatsby Love, Great Gatsby Love

They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

topic: Air, Unhappy, Together, Conspiring, Gatsby Love

She’s got an indiscreet voice,” I remarked. “It’s full of-“ I hesitated. “Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money-that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.93, Atlântico Press

topic: Song, Book, Voice, Jingles, Cymbals

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

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

So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.85, Atlântico Press

topic: Stars, Listening, Tuning, Literary Love, Gatsby Love

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

For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925)

topic: Men, Lasts, Faces, Gatsby Love, Great Gatsby American Dream