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The Great Gatsby Quotations (who said it?)

Terms in this set (40)

"Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions, and next they'll throw everything
overboard and have intermarriage between black and white."
Tom Buchanon
"So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight -- watching over nothing."
Nick Carraway
"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."
Nick Carraway
"What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?...and the day after that, and the next thirty years?"
Daisy Buchanon
"'Gratulate me. Never had a drink before but oh how I do enjoy it."
Daisy Buchanon
"Afterward he kept looking at the child with surprise. I don't think he had ever really believed in its existence before."
Nick Carraway
"By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me."
Tom Buchanon
"Can't repeat the past?...Why of course you can!"
Jay Gatsby
"Did I tell you about the books? They're real."
Owl Eyes
"God knows what you've been doing here, everything you've been doing. You may fool me but you can't fool God!"
George Wilson
"He had a big future before him, you know. He was only a young man, but he had a lot of brain power here."
Henry Gatz
"He was crazy enough to kill me if I hadn't told him who owned the car."
Tom Buchanon
"Her voice is full of money."
Jay Gatsby
"I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known"
Nick Carraway
"I can't stand my husband. The only crazy thing I did was marry him."
Myrtle Wilson
"I come across this book by accident. I just shows you, don't it?"
Henry Gatz
"I couldn't get to the house. Why, my God! They used to go there by the hundreds."
Owl Eyes
"I didn't want you to think I was just some nobody. You see, I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad thing that happened to me."
Jay Gatsby
"I found out what your 'drug stores' were...I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him and I wasn't far wrong."
Tom Buchanon
"I married him because I thought he was a gentleman...but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe."
Myrtle Wilson
"I won't be able to get away for the funeral, but will you please send me my tennis shoes?"
Edward Klipspringer
"I'm really sorry, but I don't get involved with my friends' deaths."
Meyer Wolfsheim
"It's a crazy old thing...I just slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like."
Myrtle Wilson
"Look in that drawer there...I found it yesterday afternoon. She tried to tell me about it, but I knew it was something funny."
George Wilson
"My dear, most of these fellas will cheat you every time. All they think of is money."
Myrtle Wilson
"My family all died and I came into a good deal of money."
Jay Gatsby
"Nevertheless you did throw me over....I don't give a damn about you now but it was a new experience for me and I felt a little dizzy for a while ."
Jordan Baker
"Of course she might have loved him just for a minute...in any case, it was just personal."
Jay Gatsby
"Oh, you want too much!...I love you now-isn't that enough?"
Daisy Buchanon
"That drug store business was just small change, but you've got something on now that Walter's afraid to tell me about."
Tom Buchanon
"They're a rotten crowd...You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."
Nick Carraway
"What'll we do without ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?"
Daisy Buchanon
"What's the matter, Nick? Do you object to shaking hands with me?"
Tom Buchanon
"When a man gets killed I never like to get mixed up in it in any way. I keep out."
Meyer Wolfsheim
"Wreck! That's good. Wilson'll have a little business at last."
Tom Buchanon
"You always look so cool."
Daisy Buchanon
"You may fool me, but you can't fool God."
George Wilson
"You ought to go away."
Nick Carraway
"You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I?"
Jordan Baker
"My family all died and I came into a good deal of money."
Gatsby
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