The Great Gatsby Quotes

•         “I hope that she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” – Page 22.
•         “Some time toward midnight Tom Buchanan and Mrs Wilson stood face to face discussing, in impassioned voices, whether Mrs Wilson had any right to mention Daisy’s name.” … “Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.” – Page 39.
• "Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away." - Page 169.
• "You did it, Tom," she said accusingly. "I know you didn't mean to, but you did do it. That's what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great, big, hulking physical specimen of a– " - Page 17
• "Oh, you want too much!" she cried to Gatsby. "I love you now – isn't that enough? I can't help what's past." She began to sob helplessly. "I did love him once – but I loved you too." - Page 126
• "Then there was a boom as Tom Buchanan shut the rear windows and the caught wind died out about the room, and the curtains and the rugs and the two young women ballooned slowly to the floor. " - Page 13
• "Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply – I was casually sorry, and then I forgot." - Page 58
• "Her voice is full of money," - Page 115
• "You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to make such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person. I thought it was your secret pride." - Page 168
• "And what's more, I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time." - Page 125