Great Gatsby Money Quotes

#1. A complete waste of time - doubting yourself. If you make the slightest mistake, someone else is sure to let you know about it.

Katarina Bivald

#2. The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others.

Walter Scott

#3. Hence, in a season of calm weather
Though inland far we be,
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea

William Wordsworth

#4. Every human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought.

Napoleon Hill

#5. There is a strong disposition in youth, from which some individuals never escape, to suppose that everyone else is having a more enjoyable time than we are ourselves;

Anthony Powell

#6. Social Security is meant to be - to make sure that no one who's worked hard and played by the rules and paid into the system grows old in poverty in America.

Chris Christie

#7. My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death
it is the only certainty.

Eugenie De Guerin

#8. I would do any honest thing under the sun to know C. S. Lewis, and so am very grateful to you.

Ruth Pitter

#9. There are many ways to roll with the punches. Still, it's probably best to avoid people who punch you.

Alex Bosworth

#10. The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.

Alice Munro

#11. Can you carry me to bed? Can you last long enough to make me come? Those are the important things. Get me to bed, get me off. If you can manage those things, I'll be impressed.

Jasinda Wilder

#12. I don't talk to anybody about my personal life, and maybe that perpetuates it, too. But it's really important to own what you want to own and keep it to yourself.

Kristen Stewart

#13. Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares.
[Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.]

George Herbert

#14. And my experience is the best titles, for me, emerge in the process of writing. They don't usually come at the very beginning and hopefully they don't come at the very end because then it's getting late in the day.

Edward Hirsch