The most famous quotes from The Great Gatsby
The top 3 according to 64 votes from people: Her voice is full of money. · No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart. · So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.. (Updated Apr 11, 2020.)
"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.
Top 12
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Her voice is full of money.
Gatsby, about Daisy (chapter 7).
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No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
Chapter 5.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Last line of the novel (chapter 9).
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I hope she'll be a fool — that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
Daisy, chapter 1.
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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.
Nick's father's advice (chapter 1).
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"Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!"
Gatsby, chapter 6.
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"They're a rotten crowd," I shouted across the lawn. "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."
Nick, chapter 8.
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In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
Chapter 3.
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Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.
Chapter 5.
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Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it?
Daisy, chapter 1.
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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money…
Chapter 9.
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I married him because I thought he was a gentleman.
Myrtle, chapter 2.
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Comments (1)
Read it in high school and hated it, reread it at 30 and the last line wrecked me. Funny how that works.