Great Gatsby Quotations

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"Gatsby? What Gatsby?"

Said by Daisy to Jordan - Jordan mentions Gatsby to Nick when Nick says he lives on West Egg

"You loved me too?"

Said by Gatsby to Daisy - Daisy admits that she did love Tom, but also Gatsby

"Your wife doesn't love you. She never loved you. She loves me."

Said by Gatsby to Tom - Tom figured out there is something between Gatsby and Daisy and Gatsby comes right out with it

"I just wised up to something funny the last two days. That's why I want to get away."

Said by George Wilson to Tom - Explaining to Tom that he realized his wife is having an affair so he is going to make her move away

"He's just a man named Gatsby."

Said by Jordan to Nick - Nick wants to know about Gatsby, even though his other party guests don't know him at all, because he doesn't judge until he knows someone and because Gatsby is mysterious

"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."

Said by Myrtle to party guests - Explaining why she married George Wilson if she thinks so poorly of him and would rather be with someone like Tom

"Nobody came."

Said by Nick (Narrating) to the reader - Saying that no one came to Gatsby's funeral, except his dad and Nick (and the owl eyed glasses guy)

"This is an unusual party for me. I haven't even seen the host."

Said by Nick to Gatsby (Without knowing who Gatsby is) - He is confused by how everyone at Gatsby's huge party doesn't care whether or not they know the host

"I'm inclined to reserve all judgments ."

Said by Nick to the reader - Narration, explaining that his father taught him not to judge

"Wilson? He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive."

Said by Tom to Nick - Explaining that George Wilson does not know about his affair with his wife, Myrtle

"He was crazy enough to kill me if I hadn't told him who owned the car... That fellow had it coming to him."

Said by Tom to Nick - Nick ran into Tom a while after the accident and Gatsby's murder and asked Tom what he said to Wilson the day Wilson shot Gatsby


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