Gatsby Quotes
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It elud...
Show MoreI want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.

My courage is faith--faith in the eternal resilience of me--that joy'll come back, and hope and spon...
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I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.

no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for hersel...
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Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.

Believe me, I may be a bit blasé, but I can still get any man I want.

It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

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

I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he...
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I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't change the past.""Can't change the past?" he...
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They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.

That year, a middle-aged acquaintance asked me what my favorite book was and I said "On the Road." H...
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