The Great Gatsby: Key Quotes With Page Numbers

"God knows what you've been doing...You may fool me, but you can't fool God." (p. 167)

"I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." (p.21)

"You can't repeat the past." (p. 116)

"Can't repeat the past? Why, of course you can." (p.116)

"Daisy, Daisy, Daisy! I'll say it whenever I want to." (p. 41)

"They're a rotten crowd... You're worth the whole damn bunch put together." (p. 162)

"I'm sorry about the clock." (p. 92)

"God knows what you've been doing...You may fool me, but you can't fool God." (p. 167)

"I married him because I thought he was a gentleman". . . "I thought he knew something about breeding but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe." (p. 39)

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." (p. 187-188)

"She's not to know about it. Gatsby doesn't want her to know. You're just supposed to invite her to tea." (p.85)

"It makes me sad because I've never seen such - such beautiful shirts before." (p. 98)

"I did love him once - but I loved you too." (p. 140)

"I just remembered that today's my birthday." (p. 142)

"Self control!" . . . "I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife."

"It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me." (p. 137)

"What are we going to do with ourselves this afternoon" . . . "and the day after that, and the next thirty years" (p. 125)

"Don't be morbid," . . . "Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall." (p. 125)

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." (189)

"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages you've had" (p.5)

"After Gatsby's death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eyes' power of correction." (p. 185)

"You loved me TOO?" (p. 140)

"You threw me over on the telephone. I don't give a damn about you now but it was a new experience for me and I felt a little dizzy for a while." (p. 186)