Great Gatsby Nick Quotes:

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

topic: Men, Revelations, Intimate, Great Gatsby Nick

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

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 which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: The Great Gatsby ch. 6 (1925)

topic: Father, Mean, Son, Platonic, Long Island

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

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 felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Heart, Forever, Glimpse, Privileged, Excursions

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

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

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

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

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 Nick

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

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

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

I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

topic: Grief, College, Men, Reserves, Great Gatsby Important

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.480, e-artnow

topic: Father, Missing, Fundamentals, Great Gatsby Important, Great Gatsby Nick

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

topic: Fundamentals, Birth, Great Gatsby Important, Great Gatsby Nick, Great Gatsby Nick Carraway