The Great Gatsby Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.”
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It takes two to make an accident.”
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“ I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Ah,” she cried, “you look so cool.”
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“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.”
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…”
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.”
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“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.”
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The rich get richer and the poor get – children.”
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Human sympathy has its limits.”
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“All the bright precious things fade so fast, and they don’t come back.”
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.”
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such–such beautiful shirts before.”
-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald