All Gatsby Quotes

A factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy

Gatsby's house

The white palaces of fashionable East Egg

Buchanan's house

Ashes take the forms... with transcendent effort, of ash-grey men

Pervasive ash

The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg... enormous yellow spectacles

TJ Eckleburg

swollen... in its monstrous length... labyrinth of windshields

Gatsby's car

The yacht represented all the glamour and beauty in the world

Cody's yacht

God sees everything

Eckleburg Religion

They smashed up things and creatures then retreated back to their money or their vast carelessness

Vast carelessness

Cuff buttons ... finest specimens of human molar

molar

Beautiful little fool

fool

Dishonesty in a women is a thing you never blame deeply

dishonesty

Ash-grey men swarm up... stir up an impenetrable cloud

dust cloud

He was his wife's man and not his own

Wife’s man

fifth guest's shrill metallic urgency

fifth guest

a regal homecoming glance

around the neighbourhood

mingled her thick dark blood with the dust

blood and dust

her left breast swinging loose like a flap

violence of death

exhibition of complete self-sufficiency

draws a stunned tribute from Nick

too wise to ever carry well-forgotten dreams from age to age

too wise to

Drift on forever seeking

drift

a string of polo ponies

polo ponies

sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart

physical egotism

broke her nose with his open hand

myrtles nose

never seen such beautiful shirts before

shirt

gleaming like silver, safe and proud over the hot struggles of the poor

silver

appalled by West Egg... by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants

appalled by WE

daisy tumbled short... of the colossal vitality of his illusion

colossal illusion

sprang from his Platonic conception

platonic

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

repeat the past

his mind would ever romp again like the mind of God

romp

ravenously and unscrupulously

ravenously

he had committed himself to the following of a grail

grail

gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future

orgastic

a regular Belasco

owl eyes theatre

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope

judgement - ch1

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled

observational periphery

I am one of the few honest people that i have ever known

honest people