| “I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited.” | Nick |
| “He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.” | Gatsby |
| “I was on my way to get roaring drunk from sheer embarrassment when ___________ came out of the house and stood at the head of the marble steps” | Jordan |
| “Welcome or not, *I* found it necessary to attach myself to some one before IIlcome or not, *I* found it necessary to attach myself to some one before *I* should begin to address cordial remarks to the passers-by.” | Nick |
| “Somebody told me they thought he killed a man once.” | Gatsby |
| “Let’s get out, this is much too polite for me” | Jordan |
| “I had never met him, and it was making me uneasy.” | Jordan |
| “About that. As a matter of fact you needn’t bother to ascertain. I ascertained. They’re real.” | Owl Eyes |
| “Absolutely real–have pages and everything. I thought they’d be a nice durable cardboard. Matter of fact, they’re absolutely real. Pages and–Here! Lemme show you.” | Owl Eyes |
| “See! It’s a bona-fide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. This fella’s a regular Belasco. It’s a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop, too–didn’t cut the pages. But what do you want? What do you expect?” | Owl Eyes |
| “He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf” | Owl Eyes |
| “I had taken two finger-bowls of champagne” | Nick |
| “Your face is familiar. Weren’t you in the Third Division during the war?” | Gatsby |
| “I was in the Seventh Infantry until June nineteen-eighteen. I knew I’d seen you somewhere before.” | Gatsby |
| “He smiled understandingly–much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it.” | Gatsby |
| “I had expected that Mr. Gasby would be a florid and corpulent person in his middle years.” | Nick |
| “Anyhow, he gives large parties. And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” | Jordan |
| “I beg your pardon, but Mr. Gatsby would like to speak to you alone.” | Jordan |
| “I just heard the most amazing thing. How long were we in there?” | Jordan |
| “Rather ashamed I had stayed so late, I joined the last of Gatsby’ guests, who were clustered around him. I wanted to explain that I’d hunted for him early in the evening and to apologize for not having known him in the garden.” | Nick |
| “Don’t mention it. Don’t give it another thought, old sport.” | Gatsby |
| “Philadelphia wants you on the phone, sir.” | Gatsby |
| “He smiled–and suddenly there seemed to be a pleasant significance in having been among the last to go, as if he had desired it all the time.” | Gatsby |
| “I know nothing whatever about mechanics.” | Owl Eyes |
| “Reading over what I have written so far, I see I have given the impression that the events of three nights several weeks apart were all that absorbed me.” | Nick |
| “I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night.” | Nick |
| “At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes” | Nick |
| “The bored haughty face that she turned to the world concealed something–most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don’t in the beginning.” | Jordan |
| “She left a borrowed car out in the rain with the top down, and then lied about it” | Jordan |
| “She was incurably dishonest.” | Jordan |
| “You’re a rotten driver. Either you ought to be more careful, or you oughtn’t to drive at all.” | Nick |
| “I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.” | Nick |
The Great Gatsby Chapter 3 Quotes
March 23, 2020