Tom And Gatsby Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. If someone offers to take your burden, you need to know he is serious, not just being polite and kind. Polite and kind do not last.

Amy Tan

#4. 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

#5. Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth,capacity,and earning of it.

Idries Shah

#6. 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

#7. The hand of a woman may be soft, but her reach is long. And its subtlety does not make it any less effective!

Meredith Duran

#8. 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

#9. Hope is like the Sun. When it's behind the clouds, it's not gone. You just have to find it!
- Matthew, Age 11, Lanoka Harbor, New Jersey, March 21

R.J. Palacio

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

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

Federico Fellini

#12. I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.

Tom Perrotta

#13. 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

#14. The Great Gatsby' [ ... ] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [ ... ]

J.D. Salinger