| “I’m inclined to reserve all judgments,” (ch. 1) | Nick Carraway |
| “You’re just embarrassed, that’s all. Daisy’s embarrassed too,” (ch. 5) | Nick Carraway |
| “I wouldn’t ask too much of her. You can’t repeat the past,” p. 110 | Nick Carraway |
| “I’m thirty. I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor,” p. 177 | Nick Carraway |
| “They’re a rotten crowd. You’re worth the whole bunch put together,”p. 154 | Nick Carraway |
| “Nobody’s coming to tea. It’s too late!” (ch. 5) | Jay Gatsby |
| “I’m sorry about the clock,” (ch. 5) | Jay Gatsby |
| “i thought you knew old sport. I’m afraid I’m not a very good host,”(ch. 3) | Jay Gatsby |
| “I felt far away from her. It’s hard to make her understand,” p. 109 | Jay Gatsby |
| “I was in the drug business and then I was in the oil business. But I’m not in either one now,” p. 90 | Jay Gatsby |
| “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!”p. 110 | Jay Gatsby |
| “You remind me of a—of a rose, an absolute rose,” p. 14 | Daisy Buchanan |
| “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such—such beautiful shirts before,” (ch. 5) | Daisy Buchanan |
| “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,” (ch. 1) | Daisy Buchanan |
| “I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it,” p. 11 | Daisy Buchanan |
| “Gatsby? What Gatsby?” (ch. 1) | Daisy Buchanan |
| “You didn’t come to my wedding,” p. 16 | Daisy Buchanan |
| “I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything,” (ch. 1) | Daisy Buchanan |
| “I wonder where in the devil he met Daisy,” p. 103 | Tom Buchanan |
| “He ran over Myrtle like you’d run over a dog and never even stopped his car,” p. 178 | Tom Buchanan |
| “I like large parties. They’re so intimate,” (Ch. 3) | Jordan Baker |
| “I hate careless people. That’s why I like you.” (Ch. 3) | Jordan Baker |
| “I’ll telephone my sister Catherine. She’s said to be very beautiful by people who ought to know,” (Ch. 2) | Myrtle Wilson |
| “It’s just a crazy old thing. I just slip it on sometimes when I don’t care what I look like,” (Ch. 2) | Myrtle Wilson |
| “Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!” (Ch. 2) | Myrtle Wilson |
| “I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe.” (Ch. 2) | Myrtle Wilson |
| “Oh, my Ga-od! Oh, my Ga-od!” p. 139 | George Wilson |
| “You don’t have to tell me what kind of car it was! I know what kind of car it was!” p. 140 | George Wilson |
| “I told her she might fool me but she couldn’t fool God,” p. 159 | George Wilson |
| “I see you’re looking at my cuff buttons. Finest specimens of human molars,” (Ch. 4) | Meyer Wolfsheim |
| “Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead,” p. 172 | Meyer Wolfsheim |
Great Gatsby Character Quotes
March 26, 2020