Quotes About Jay Gatsby From The Great Gatsby

#1. 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

#2. Bad taste is a species of bad morals.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#3. Before facing you enemy, you must first face yourself.

Tite Kubo

#4. He put his life on hold as he waited for his life to begin.

Keith Donohue

#5. 'Sailor Moon' was my favorite cartoon of all time, and I'm still kind of obsessed with it. I own all the DVDs to watch it at home.

Emily Browning

#6. When I was young I couldn't string two words together in his presence. I would merely nod and shake my head. Though on a fortunate day, I could force out monosyllabic answers. Tonight, everything suddenly changed.

Aniesha Brahma

#7. To become proficient in any field you must practise. There is simply no achievement without practice and the more practice, provided it is done intelligently, the greater will the proficiency be and the sooner will it be attained.

Emmet Fox

#8. Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

Ann Landers

#9. Abby. She's a pigeon. A demonic pigeon that fucks with my head so bad I can't think straight. Nothing makes sense anymore, Cam. Every rule I've ever made's getting broken one by one. I'm a pussy. No ... worse. I'm Shep.

Jamie McGuire

#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. Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. Even before the letter he'd been divided: one part of him swanning with Jay Gatsby around an imaginary Gotham; the other part stolid and earthbound, nose to the deep fryer, in the stifling, sizzling South.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#13. In Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard, mostly I love the soft collision here of harbor and shore, the subtly haunting briny quality that all small towns have when they are situated on the sea

William Styron

#14. Trying to extricate from the long day the grain of pleasure

Graham Greene