99 Great Gatsby Book Quotes
Following is our list of great gatsby book quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about gatsby.
Quick Jump To
Famous Great Gatsby Book Quotes
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. — Dorothy Parker
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. — Robertson Davies
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit. — John Milton
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. — Frank Dane
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. — Mark Twain
Books succeed, and lives fail. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. — Joseph Addison
He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them. — Charles Finch
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. — William Styron
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. — Jean Cocteau
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs. — Wentworth Miller
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. — Indian Proverbs
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend. — Moliere
One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures. — George W. Bush
The Notebook ... that’s my favorite one. I’ve read that book 30 times. It gives a true depiction of two people that are in love. — Kevin Gates
Great Gatsby Gatsby Quotes
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss. — Hugh Hefner
You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gatsby Quotes
Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
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. - The Great Gatsby. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Gatsby Important Quotes
I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can! — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Gatsby Nick Quotes
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning --- — F. Scott Fitzgerald
He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can! — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gatsby turned out all right at 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. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Gatsby Love Quotes
I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table. You always look so cool," she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
She’s got an indiscreet voice,” I remarked. “It’s full of-“ I hesitated. “Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money-that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love. — Tom Perrotta
...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does. — Andrew Davies
Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me. — Rob Sheffield
Great Gatsby American Dream Quotes
A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character... he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and lifted himself by his bootstraps from a poor kid in the Midwest and created this image that is The Great Gatsby and it's a truly American story in that regard. — Leonardo DiCaprio
The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer. — Azar Nafisi
People Writing About Great Gatsby Book
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Dorothy Parker |
340 | 4622 |
 Robertson Davies |
230 | 1138 |
 John Milton |
780 | 4024 |
 Frank Dane |
26 | 136 |
 Mark Twain |
2433 | 47813 |
 Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
256 | 1889 |
More Great Gatsby Book Quotes
They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The rich get richer and the poor get - children. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit. — Henry Rollins
I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years. — A. Scott Berg
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is perfect in the same way that The Great Gatsby is perfect. Take a pencil and read these books, looking for something that doesn't sound right, something you'd want to change. You'll leave the page untouched. — William McKeen
in the last month or so, i have read the great gatsby and a separate peace. i am starting to see a real trend in the kind of books bill gives me to read. and just like the tape of songs, it is amazing to hold each of them in the palm of my hand. they are all my favorites. all of them. — Stephen Chbosky
In Conclusion
Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of great gatsby book quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about great gatsby book to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.
Citation
Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of great gatsby book quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.
Embed HTML Link
Copy and paste this HTML code in your webpage