The Great Gatsby QUOTES Flashcards
(35 cards)
“furniture…”
“furniture entirely too large”
“golden…”
“golden girls”
“so we beat on…”
“so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”
“They were…”
“They were careless people Tom and Daisy”
“Silver…”
“Silver idols”
“white…”
“White girlhood”
“I’ve been…”
“I’ve been everywhere, and seen everything, and done everything… God I’m sophisticated!”
“Can’t…”
“Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!”
“Beautiful…”
“Beautiful little fool”
“Angry…”
“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away”
“And I like…”
“And I like big parties, they’re so intimate. At small parties, there isn’t any privacy.”
“One of those…”
“One of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it”
“Blue…”
“Blue gardens”
“so we drove …”
“so we drove on towards death through the cooling twilight”
“you always…”
“You always look so cool”
“Gatsby …”
“Gatsby believed in the green light”
“her voice…”
“her voice is full of money”
“dishonesty…”
“Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.”
“I am one…”
“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known”
“I wasn’t actually…”
“I wasn’t actually in love but I had a sort of tender curiosity”
“just remember…”
“just remember people in this world haven’t had the advantages you’ve had”
“You’re worth…”
“You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together”
“retreated…”
“retreated back into their money”
“Daisy…”
“Daisy tumbled short of his dreams”
