The Great Gatsby Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Great Gatsby is written by an American author  F. Scott Fitzgerald and published in 1925. This is a story of the Jazz age and long Island. The novel represents Nick carraway as a narrator and his interaction with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby. 

The novel is filled with youthfulness and vivacity and quotes from The Great Gatsby are proves that thing.

Here is the list of Quotes from the Great Gatsby:

1. “I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” 

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

2. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

3. “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

4. “I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

6. “So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

7. “I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

8. “Angry, and a half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

9. “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

10. “I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

12. “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

13. “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

14. “Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

15. “They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

16. “In his blue gardens, men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

17. “It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

18. “All I kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

19. “I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others–young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

20. “No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

21. “If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

22. “He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

23. “Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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