The Great Gatsby QUOTES

"I've been drunk for about a week now, and i thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."

Owl Eyes

"God knows what you've been doing... You may fool me, but you can't fool God."

George Wilson

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

Wolshiem

"Civilization's going to pieces... It's up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things."

Tom

"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."

Daisy

"And now she's going to whether she wants to or not. I'm going to get her away."

Wilson

"It takes two to make an accident. I don't like careless people. That's why I like you."

Jordan

"I'd like to get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around."

Daisy

"It's really his wife that's keeping them apart. She's Catholic, and they don't believe in divorce."

Catherine

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

Gatsby

"Daisy, Daisy, Daisy! I'll say it whenever I want to."

Myrtle

"Tom's got some woman in New York."

Jordan

"I'd like to get one of those police dogs."

Myrtle

"When I saw the box of dog biscuits... I sat down and cried like a baby... "

Tom

"It's a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me."

Gatsby

"He had on a dress suit and patent leather shoes, and I couldn't keep my eyes off him... "

Myrtle

"I decided to go east and learn the bond business. Everybody I knew was in the bond business, so I supposed it could support one more single man."

Nick

"I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything. Sophisticated God, I'm sophisticated!"

Daisy

"He went to Oggsford College in England. You know Oggsford College?"

Wolshiem

"Jimmy was bound to get ahead."

Mr. Gats

"He wants her to see his house... and your house is right next door."

Jordan

"I'm sorry about the clock."

Gatsby

"...You're rude. Daisy's sitting in there alone."

Nick

"When are you going to sell me that car?"

Wilson

"I married him because I thought he was a gentlemen."

Myrtle

"The ********ed coward! He didn't even stop his car."

Tom

"You remind me of a - of a rose, an absolute rose."

Daisy

"Now it was again a green light on the dock, His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one."

Nick

"Yeah, Gatsby's very careful about women. He would never so much look at a friend's wife."

Wolshiem

"In the morning, in the evening, ain't we got fun."

Klipspringer

"He's the man who fixed the World Series back in 1919."

Gatsby

"An Oxford man! Like hell he is! He wears a pink suit."

Tom

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

Nick

"They're a rotten crowd... You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."

Nick