# The most famous quotes from The Great Gatsby

"So we beat on, boats against the current", "Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!" and a voice full of money: the best-known lines of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, with the chapter they come from.

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- Apr 11, 2020 · Thabo Nkosi
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## Top 12

1. **Her voice is full of money.** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Gatsby, about Daisy (chapter 7).
2. **No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Chapter 5.
3. **So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Last line of the novel (chapter 9).
4. **I hope she'll be a fool — that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Daisy, chapter 1.
5. **Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Nick's father's advice (chapter 1).
6. **"Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!"** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Gatsby, chapter 6.
7. **"They're a rotten crowd," I shouted across the lawn. "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Nick, chapter 8.
8. **In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Chapter 3.
9. **Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Chapter 5.
10. **Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it?** (1 · ▲4 ▼3) — Daisy, chapter 1.
11. **They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money…** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Chapter 9.
12. **I married him because I thought he was a gentleman.** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Myrtle, chapter 2.

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