The Great Gatsby Quotes-Final Exam Review

Nick Carraway

"I am one of the few honest people I have ever known."

Nick Carraway

"I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited--they went there."

Tom Buchanan

"By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me."

Daisy Buchanan

"Oh, you want too much!... I love you now---isn't that enough?"

Daisy Buchanan

"It makes me sad because I've never seen such-such beautiful shirts."

Tom Buchanan

"He was crazy enough to kill me if I hadn't told him who owned that car."

Jay Gatsby

"Can't repeat the past?... Why of course you can!"

George Wilson

"I've been here too long. I want to get away. My wife and I want to go west."

Nick Carraway

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

Nick Carraway

"I just remembered that today's my birthday."

Nick Carraway

"I decided to go east and learn the bond business."

Nick Carraway

His father often reminds him that "all the people of the world haven't had the advantages you've had..."

Meyer Wolfsheim

"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."

Jordan Baker

"When we were at a house-party together up in Warwich, she left a borrowed car out in the rain with the top down, and then lied about it." (spoken about)

George Wilson

"He was his wife's man and not his own." (spoken about)

Tom Buchanan

"Well, these books are all scientific. This fellow has worked out the whole thing. It's up to us who are the dominant race or these other races will have control of things."

Meyer Wolfsheim

"He's a gambler....He's the man who fixed the World's Series back in 1919." (Spoken about)

Nick Carraway

"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted by the inexhaustible variety of life."

Daisy Buchanan

"I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."

Jordan Baker

"I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties, there is no privacy."