The great Gatsby - Bookquotes and moviequotes

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

Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

Gatsby turned out all right in the end. It is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.

Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

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.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

He looked at her the way all women wanted to be looked at by a man.