Mr Gatsby Quotes

#1. You two start on home, Daisy,' said Tom. 'In Mr Gatsby's car.'
She looked at Tom, alarmed now, but he insisted with magnanimous scorn.
'Go on. He won't annoy you. I think he realises that his presumptuous little flirtation is over.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. Something in his leisurely move- ments and the secure position of his feet upon the lawn suggested that it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to deter- mine what share was his of our local heavens.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.

Joel Edgerton

#4. For Americans, the car is the American way. Jay Gatsby roars through capitalism, individual freedom, and the good life. For China, the train is the metaphor. Everyone's on board, there's no chance to steer, and it's clickety-clack to collectivism's dreams.

Mei Fong

#5. Movie directors who have filmed F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' believe it's a big book looming inside a small one, and they aren't altogether wrong.

Steve Erickson

#6. Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The Great Gatsby is an absurd story, whether considered as romance, melodrama, or plain record of New York high life.

L.P. Hartley

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

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven-a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savours of anti-climax.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#9. One of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written.

Danielle De Niese

#10. In my own humorless state I failed to see anything except what I construed as certain tragic similarities between Gatsby and myself.

Donna Tartt

#11. The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#12. You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.

John Green

#13. Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio - he be soo gorgeous, no wonder all the ladies flockin' to him - He be Gatsby.

Amitabh Bachchan

#14. It is always hard to leave a home a drama a way of life a life. So I sat there warm and safe that night held by the sea and a good man and my own good fortune victim and witness to all the transitory sweetness like Gatsby's dreams that stood before and behind me.

Gail Caldwell

#15. The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#16. I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#17. Human sympathy has its limits.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#18. I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read 'The Great Gatsby' every summer.

Dree Hemingway