Top 100 Quotes About Gatsby

#1. 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

Quotes About Gatsby #7321
#2. I'm not good at living in the grim places ... when we did Gatsby, I lived in Claridges, that's where I wanted to live. I can't live in grimness and then go play a classy human being.

Bruce Dern

Quotes About Gatsby #7455
#3. Bootleggers were romanticized by people like F. Scott Fitzgerald, for example. Gatsby is a bootlegger. And they were not thought of as evil criminals in the newspapers, either. There was a certain amount of affection for them.

Pete Hamill

Quotes About Gatsby #58493
#4. I have a hard time finding something that I really enjoy reading, but I read 'The Great Gatsby' every summer.

Dree Hemingway

Quotes About Gatsby #83651
#5. 'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever come out of the United States. Everything in the book moves as it should, in the manner of a piece by Bach or Mozart.

Frank Delaney

Quotes About Gatsby #105311
#6. Human sympathy has its limits.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #126150
#7. I'd once again see that bob of blonde hair back on my pillow, that pink hot smile beaming toward me as I heroically win her heart in some kind of Count of Monte Cristo or Great Gatsby-esque gesture ... you know minus the long imprisonment or swimming pool death!

Tom Conrad

Quotes About Gatsby #126802
#8. 'The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me.

Joel Edgerton

Quotes About Gatsby #132055
#9. There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', that were made into movies. And I love those movies as much as I love the books. That's really rare.

Tatiana De Rosnay

Quotes About Gatsby #139719
#10. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #149354
#11. My own rule is to let everything alone.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #186469
#12. In the last month or so, i have read the great gatsby and a separate peace. i am starting to see a real trend in the kind of books bill gives me to read. and just like the tape of songs, it is amazing to hold each of them in the palm of my hand. they are all my favorites. all of them.

Stephen Chbosky

Quotes About Gatsby #213038
#13. The Colors, The Iliad, Ulysses, Metamorphosis, the Theban plays, The Draconic Labels, Anabasis, and restricted works like The Count of Monte Cristo, Lord of the Flies, Lady Casterly's Penance, 1984, and The Great Gatsby. I

Pierce Brown

Quotes About Gatsby #216080
#14. Well, any friend of Gatsby is a friend of mine

Haruki Murakami

Quotes About Gatsby #250845
#15. Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #282773
#16. Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #294087
#17. I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.

Hugh Hefner

Quotes About Gatsby #318006
#18. 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

Quotes About Gatsby #323996
#19. A literary fetish is the new black

Danielle Ganek

Quotes About Gatsby #335558
#20. Gatsby looked at Daisy in a way that every young girl wanted to be looked at

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #390178
#21. I think 'Gatsby' is hobbled, in part, by its status as a Great American Novel. People kind of roll their eyes before they've even opened it, treat it with a 'been there, done that' attitude. I know I did. It took me years to re-open the novel and see how much I'd missed.

Susan Choi

Quotes About Gatsby #417593
#22. 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

Quotes About Gatsby #439352
#23. I found myself on Gatsby's side and alone.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #441324
#24. It was this night that he told me the strange story of his youth with Dan Cody - told it to me because "Jay Gatsby" had broken up like glass against Tom's hard malice, and the long secret extravaganza was played out.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #452965
#25. The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'

Karin Slaughter

Quotes About Gatsby #459801
#26. Images sometimes capture particular periods in history. The unreachable green light, beckoning from across the bay in 'The Great Gatsby,' has become a symbol of the yearning of America in the 1920s.

David Ignatius

Quotes About Gatsby #463217
#27. I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #480912
#28. I think the novel is a wonder....it has vitality to an extraordinary degree, and glamour, and a great deal of underlying thought of unusual quality....And as for the sheer writing, it's astonishing. [About The Great Gatsby]

Maxwell Perkins

Quotes About Gatsby #499296
#29. I think that The Great Gatsby has had some influence on contemporary dressing. I'm seeing more boyish haircuts and drop-waist sheath dresses.

Ruth E. Carter

Quotes About Gatsby #504579
#30. 'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.

Henry Rollins

Quotes About Gatsby #521002
#31. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #531354
#32. And so began the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran versus The Great Gatsby

Azar Nafisi

Quotes About Gatsby #534818
#33. No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #536477
#34. He's just a man names Gatsby.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #537629
#35. 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

Quotes About Gatsby #565058
#36. 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

Quotes About Gatsby #573074
#37. In my opinion, Fiction is a figment of our imagination & it causes us to dream but Reality taints dreams, and the F.scott Fitzgerald has clearly depicted this in The Great Gatsby.

Parul Wadhwa

Quotes About Gatsby #579922
#38. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is perfect in the same way that The Great Gatsby is perfect. Take a pencil and read these books, looking for something that doesn't sound right, something you'd want to change. You'll leave the page untouched.

William McKeen

Quotes About Gatsby #609851
#39. At this point Jordan and I tried to go, but Tom and Gatsby insisted with competitive firmness that we remain - as though neither of them had anything to conceal and it would be a privilege to partake vicariously of their emotions.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #627379
#40. 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

Quotes About Gatsby #631646
#41. Rich girls don't marry poor boys, Jay Gatsby

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #662010
#42. It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #667794
#43. I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #678203
#44. But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable again.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #689650
#45. If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

Robert Harris

Quotes About Gatsby #692777
#46. In these fast and fickle times, it's nice to know that there are some things you can always count on: the enduring brilliance of the last page of The Great Gatsby; the near-religious harmonies of the Beach Boys' "California Girls"; and the lifelong friendship of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

Sarah Vowell

Quotes About Gatsby #695980
#47. Take off that darn fur coat! ... Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #703265
#48. And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back ceaslessly into rewrites.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #708026
#49. My hair-- bob it!

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #714500
#50. Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio - he be soo gorgeous, no wonder all the ladies flockin' to him - He be Gatsby.

Amitabh Bachchan

Quotes About Gatsby #716382
#51. I love to read. I was in AP English in high school, and we were assigned books every few months. 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' are two of my favorite ones.

Spencer Boldman

Quotes About Gatsby #729586
#52. She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #734390
#53. I wish I'd done everything on Earth with you.

Baz Luhrmann

Quotes About Gatsby #749708
#54. Great people especially must be careful about what they worship.

John Green

Quotes About Gatsby #760583
#55. You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.

John Green

Quotes About Gatsby #765224
#56. What make Gatsby so damn great - like da book's title indicatin' - is dat unlike da rest of deez shallow rich folk, Gatsby actually believe in somethin': love, dawg. He build himself a new identity jus' for Daisy. Errybody else straight-up empty inside.

Sparky Sweets

Quotes About Gatsby #784859
#57. He broke off and began to walk u and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favors and crushed flowers.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #792851
#58. The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #800987
#59. All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.

John Green

Quotes About Gatsby #835641
#60. He took down his drink as if it were a drop in the bottom of a glass.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #840627
#61. I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.

Gail Collins

Quotes About Gatsby #849734
#62. Anything can happen now that we've slid over this bridge, anything at all ...

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #887033
#63. Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms. Her wan scornful mouth smiled and I drew her up again, closer, this time to my face.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #888118
#64. Fitzgerald has charm. It's a silly word, but it's an exact word for me. I like 'The Great Gatsby' and it's sad, gay nostalgia.

Truman Capote

Quotes About Gatsby #889961
#65. I found something! Courage
just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #894236
#66. I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #894312
#67. Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.

Rob Sheffield

Quotes About Gatsby #895573
#68. Well, it's a fine book, and everybody ought to read it.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #902988
#69. He stayed there for a week , walking the streets where their footsteps had clicked together through the November night and revisiting the out-of-the-way places to which they had driven in her white car.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #908791
#70. One emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #968604
#71. forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #972076
#72. Jay Gatsby: Old sport.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #980200
#73. I am asking Scribners to insert as a subtitle in everything after the eighth printing
THE SUN ALSO RISES (LIKE YOUR COCK IF YOU HAVE ONE)
A greater Gatsby
(Written with the friendship of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Prophet of THE JAZZ AGE)

Ernest Hemingway,

Quotes About Gatsby #986625
#74. Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #998541
#75. I was very new to working in front of the camera when I started shooting 'Gatsby', so I set myself the mission of gleaning as much information as possible out of the much more experienced actors. The cast was astoundingly talented.

Elizabeth Debicki

Quotes About Gatsby #1004832
#76. I see you're looking at my cuff buttons.
I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #1007751
#77. There's green eyes in my eyes
And a lover on my mind
And I sing from the piano
Tear my yellow dress and
Cry and cry and cry
Over the love of you

Florence Welch

Quotes About Gatsby #1041757
#78. The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world.

Helen Gardner

Quotes About Gatsby #1060999
#79. I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all
Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #1067022
#80. I'm p-paralyzed with happiness. - She laughed again, as if she said something very witty, and held my hand for a moment, looking up into my face, promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see. That was a way she had.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #1071035
#81. It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #1075389
#82. 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

Quotes About Gatsby #1077347
#83. The third boat was quite pretty, too ... this one was an Adirondack fishing boat, and even though it was only half finished, I could picture Jay Gatsby in it, casting a line over the side while he yearned for that shallow tramp, Daisy.

Kristan Higgins

Quotes About Gatsby #1081233
#84. I did some songs for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I had done a jazz album of Roxy songs, and they used bits of it in the film. It would be nice to score a movie one day.

Bryan Ferry

Quotes About Gatsby #1097566
#85. In my own humorless state I failed to see anything except what I construed as certain tragic similarities between Gatsby and myself.

Donna Tartt

Quotes About Gatsby #1124952
#86. Try as he might, Gatsby remains outside the inner sanctum and nothing he can do will allow him full access. He will never be accepted by anyone but the nouveaux riches.

Kate Maurer

Quotes About Gatsby #1156971
#87. I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #1170475
#88. Everyone suspects themselves of at least one of the cardinal virtues ...

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #1180513
#89. One of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written.

Danielle De Niese

Quotes About Gatsby #1193798
#90. They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #1215707
#91. I could have told him to learn from Gatsby. from the lonely, isolated Gatsby, who also tried to retrieve his past and give flash and blood to a fancy, a dream that was never meant to be more than a dream.

Azar Nafisi

Quotes About Gatsby #1261848
#92. After all, in the very casualness of Gatsby's party there were romantic possibilities totally absent from her world.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #1273452
#93. Sydney had been horrified to discover my home library consisted of a bartending dictionary and an old copy of Esquire, and at her pleading, I'd promised to read something more substantial. I was trying to think deep thoughts as I read Gatsby, but mostly I wanted to throw some parties.

Richelle Mead

Quotes About Gatsby #1285919
#94. A naive, excitable teenaged reader is a beautiful thing. Someone who's never heard of Elizabeth Bennet or Jay Gatsby, until you tell him. And they all still believe in truth. That's the fun of it.

Holly LeCraw

Quotes About Gatsby #1288442
#95. She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #1289449
#96. They knew the difference between thoroughness and overkill. It was like Jay Gatsby's library: the books were real, but the pages were uncut.

Haruki Murakami

Quotes About Gatsby #1299958
#97. It's Fitzgerald's thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent.

Maureen Corrigan

Quotes About Gatsby #1337490
#98. It was quality that killed Lilly; it was the end of The Great Gatsby, which was not her ending, which was not an ending within her grasp.

John Irving

Quotes About Gatsby #1361369
#99. The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colours, and hair bobbed in strange new ways ...

F Scott Fitzgerald

Quotes About Gatsby #1372603
#100. 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

Quotes About Gatsby #1392840

Famous Authors

Popular Topics

Scroll to Top