The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.

I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

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

Every one 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.

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.

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

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

We are not trapped by our thoughts. What we generally do, however, is create thoughts that trap us.” (p.162)

I make my own judgements of people, mate. I don't need to borrow yours.

When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

Not secondary to the sun, she gives us his blaze again, Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day... In Heaven queen she is among the spheres; She, mistress-like, makes all things to be pure.

No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish.

I hope there's pudding!

Brave men don’t learn from their home.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

Like my sister, 981 women die every day on Earth from pregnancy and birth-related complications.