It was in
Paris that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "The Great Gatsby." Although this 1924 novel was not a runaway success, it was critically acclaimed. These Great Gatsby quotes clearly demonstrate why this novel has acquired the status of a classic and inspired a movie version starring none other than Robert Redford. These Great Gatsby quotes are truly a testament to the literary skill of Fitzgerald.
- All right... I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
- ...but no one swooned backward on Gatsby and no French bob touched Gatsby's shoulder and no singing quartets were formed with Gatsby's head for one link.
- Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
- I found myself on Gatsby’s side, and alone.
- I had taken two finger-bowls of champagne, and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental, and profound.
- I know. I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything…Sophisticated -- God, I’m sophisticated!
- It excited him too that many men had already loved Daisy -- it increased her value in his eyes.
- It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.
- The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be -- will be utterly submerged. It’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.
- The Middle West now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe.
- [Tom] would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.
