Great Gatsby Quotes

daisy

"'Gratulate me," Never had a drink before, but oh how I do enjoy it."

gatsby

"And don't forget we're going up in the hydroplane to-morrow morning, at nine o'clock."

tom

"And if you feel that way about it, maybe I'd better sell it somewhere else after all."

jordan

"Anyhow, he gives large parties," s"And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy."

daisy

"But we heard it," . "We heard it from three people, so it must be true."

tom

"Civilization's going to pieces," "Civilization's going to pieces,"

myrtle

"Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!" "I'll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai ——"

Daisy

"A man named Biloxi. 'blocks' Biloxi, and he made boxes — that's a fact — and he was from Biloxi, Tennessee."

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."

jordan

"Absolutely!" with such suddenness that I started — it was the first word she uttered since I came into the room.

gatsby

"After that I lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe — Paris, Venice, Rome — collecting jewels, chiefly rubies, hunting big game, painting a little, things for myself only, and trying to forget something very sad that had happened to me long ago."

Tom

"All right, I'm perfectly willing to go to town. Come on — we're all going to town."

Tom

"All this 'old sport' business. Where'd you pick that up?"

Owl Eyes

"Amen to that.

Tom

"An Oxford man! Like hell he is! He wears a pink suit."

Tom

"And if you think I didn't have my share of suffering — look here, when I went to give up that flat and saw that damn box of dog biscuits sitting there on the sideboard, I sat down and cried like a baby. By God it was awful ——"

Gatsby

"And she doesn't understand. She used to be able to understand. We'd sit for hours ——"

Tom

"And you left him in the lurch, didn't you? You let him go to jail for a month over in New Jersey. God! You ought to hear Walter on the subject of you."

Miss Baedeker

"Anything I hate is to get my head stuck in a pool. They almost drowned me once over in New Jersey."

Daisy

"Are we just going to go? Like this? Aren't we going to let any one smoke a cigarette first?"

Daisy

"At least they're more interesting than the people we know."

Myrtle

"Beat me! Throw me down and beat me, you dirty little coward!"

Daisy

"Bles-sed pre-cious, Come to your own mother that loves you."

mrs. mckee

"But it looks wonderful on you, if you know what I mean," "If Chester could only get you in that pose I think he could make something of it."

Daisy

"But it's so hot and everything's so confused. Let's all go to town!"

Jordan

"But there's a garage right here, I don't want to get stalled in this baking heat."

Gatsby

"Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!"

Tom

"Come on! What's the matter, anyhow? If we're going to town, let's start."

Tom

"Come on, Daisy, I'll take you in this circus wagon."

Mr. Sloane

"Come on. We're late. We've got to go. Tell him we couldn't wait, will you?"

Tom

"Daisy invited him; she knew him before we were married — God knows where!"

Gatsby

"Daisy's leaving you."

Gatsby

"Daisy, that's all over now. It doesn't matter any more. Just tell him the truth — that you never loved him — and it's all wiped out forever."

Tom

"Did you notice Daisy's face when that girl asked her to put her under a cold shower?"

nick

"Do you mean you're in love with Miss Baker?"

Jordan

"Do you mean you've been to a medium?"

Tom Buchanan

"Do you mind if I eat with some people over here? A fellow's getting off some funny stuff."

Jordan

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

tom

"Don't believe everything you hear, Nick,"

Gatsby

"Don't tell me, old sport. Anyhow — Daisy stepped on it. I tried to make her stop, but she couldn't, so I pulled on the emergency brake. Then she fell over into my lap and I drove on.

Tom

"Don't you call me 'old sport'! Walter could have you up on the betting laws too, but Wolfsheim scared him into shutting his mouth."

Daisy

"Even alone I can't say I never loved Tom. It wouldn't be true."

Tom

"Even that's a lie. She didn't know you were alive. Why — there're things between Daisy and me that you'll never know, things that neither of us can ever forget."

Michaelis

"Ever had any children? Come on, George, sit still — I asked you a question. Did you ever have any children?"

Tom

"Everybody smoked all through lunch."

wolfsheim

"Finest specimens of human molars,"

daisy

"Gatsby?" "What Gatsby?"

Daisy Buchanan

"Go ahead, and if you want to take down any addresses here's my little gold pencil."

Owl Eyes

"Go on! Why, my God! they used to go there by the hundreds." "The poor son-of-a-bitch."

Tom

"Go on. He won't annoy you. I think he realizes that his presumptuous little flirtation is over."

George Wilson

"God sees everything."

gatsby

"Good morning, old sport. You're having lunch with me to-day and I thought we'd ride up together."

Nick

"Good-by. I enjoyed breakfast, Gatsby."

Daisy

"Have it your own way. Come on, Jordan."

Michaelis

"Have you got a church you go to sometimes, George? Maybe even if you haven't been there for a long time? Maybe I could call up the church and get a priest to come over and he could talk to you, see?"

gatsby

"He becomes very sentimental sometimes," "This is one of his sentimental days. He's quite a character around New York — a denizen of Broadway."

Gatsby

"He came to us dead broke. He was very glad to pick up some money, old sport."

Mr. Gatz

"He come out to see me two years ago and bought me the house I live in now. Of course we was broke up when he run off from home, but I see now there was a reason for it. He knew he had a big future in front of him. And ever since he made a success he was very generous with me."

Mr. Gatz

"He had a big future before him, you know. He was only a young man, but he had a lot of brain power here."

wolfsheim

"He has to telephone," "Fine fellow, isn't he? Handsome to look at and a perfect gentleman."

Daisy

"He isn't causing a row. You're causing a row. Please have a little self-control."

George Wilson

"He murdered her."

jordan

"He wants to know," "if you'll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over."

Jordan

"He was probably bumming his way home. He told me he was president of your class at Yale."

Nick

"Her name was Wilson. Her husband owns the garage. How the devil did it happen?"

Gatsby

"Her voice is full of money."

daisy

"Here, deares'." "Take 'em down-stairs and give 'em back to whoever they belong to. Tell 'em all Daisy's change' her mine. Say: 'Daisy's change' her mine!'."

Train conductor

"Hot! Some weather! hot! hot! hot! Is it hot enough for you? Is it hot? Is it.. .?"

Daisy

"How do you like mother's friends? Do you think they're pretty?"

Michaelis

"How long have you been married, George? Come on there, try and sit still a minute and answer my question. How long have you been married?"

daisy

"I adore it," "The pompadour! You never told me you had a pompadour — or a yacht."

Daisy

"I can tell you right now. He owned some drug-stores, a lot of drug-stores. He built them up himself."

Gatsby

"I can't describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for a while that she'd throw me over, but she didn't, because she was in love with me too. She thought I knew a lot because I knew different things from her. . . . Well, there I was, 'way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care. What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?"

daisy

"I certainly am awfully glad to see you again."

Tom

"I didn't hear it. I imagined it. A lot of these newly rich people are just big bootleggers, you know."

George Wilson

"I didn't mean to interrupt your lunch. But I need money pretty bad, and I was wondering what you were going to do with your old car."

Miss Baedeker

"I do leave it alone,"

nick

"I don't like mysteries," And I don't understand why you won't come out frankly and tell me what you want. Why has it all got to come through Miss Baker?"

Klipspringer

"I don't play well. I don't — I hardly play at all. I'm all out of prac ——" "I'm all out of practice, you see. I told you I couldn't play. I'm all out of prac ——"

Tom

"I don't see the idea of going to town, Women get these notions in their heads ——"

Gatsby

"I don't think she ever loved him. You must remember, old sport, she was very excited this afternoon. He told her those things in a way that frightened her — that made it look as if I was some kind of cheap sharper. And the result was she hardly knew what she was saying."

George Wilson

"I found it yesterday afternoon. She tried to tell me about it, but I knew it was something funny. She had it wrapped in tissue paper on her bureau."

Tom

"I found out what your 'drug-stores' were. He and this Wolfsheim bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That's one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him, and I wasn't far wrong."

Gatsby

"I got to West Egg by a side road and left the car in my garage. I don't think anybody saw us, but of course I can't be sure."

wolfsheim

"I handed the money to Katspaugh and I said: 'all right, Katspaugh, don't pay him a penny till he shuts his mouth.' He shut it then and there."

tom

"I hate that word hulking," "even in kidding."

gatsby

"I have been glancing into some of the rooms. Let's go to Coney Island, old sport. In my car." "Well, suppose we take a plunge in the swimming-pool? I haven't made use of it all summer."

Gatsby

"I haven't got a horse. I used to ride in the army, but I've never bought a horse. I'll have to follow you in my car. Excuse me for just a minute."

Nick

"I hear you fired all your servants."

jordan

"I hope I never will," "I hate careless people. That's why I like you."

George Wilson

"I just got wised up to something funny the last two days. That's why I want to get away. That's why I been bothering you about the car."

gatsby

"I keep it always full of interesting people, night and day. People who do interesting things. Celebrated people."

Tom

"I know I'm not very popular. I don't give big parties. I suppose you've got to make your house into a pigsty in order to have any friends — in the modern world."

gatsby

"I know what we'll do," "we'll have Klipspringer play the piano."

George Wilson

"I know. I'm one of these trusting fellas and I don't think any harm to nobody, but when I get to know a thing I know it. It was the man in that car. She ran out to speak to him and he wouldn't stop."

Meyer Wolfsheim

"I raised him up out of nothing, right out of the gutter. I saw right away he was a fine-appearing, gentlemanly young man, and when he told me he was at Oggsford I knew I could use him good. I got him to join up in the American Legion and he used to stand high there. Right off he did some work for a client of mine up to Albany. We were so thick like that in everything. always together."

Tom

"I read somewhere that the sun's getting hotter every year. It seems that pretty soon the earth's going to fall into the sun — or wait a minute — it's just the opposite — the sun's getting colder every year.

Mr. Gatz

"I saw it in the Chicago newspaper. It was all in the Chicago newspaper. I started right away."

George Wilson

"I spoke to her. I told her she might fool me but she couldn't fool God. I took her to the window and I said 'God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!'"

nick

"I talked with Miss Baker," "I'm going to call up Daisy to-morrow and invite her over here to tea."

jordan

"I think he half expected her to wander into one of his parties, some night," "but she never did. Then he began asking people casually if they knew her, and I was the first one he found. It was that night he sent for me at his dance, and you should have heard the elaborate way he worked up to it. Of course, I immediately suggested a luncheon in New York — and I thought he'd go mad:

Gatsby

"I thought so; I told Daisy I thought so. It's better that the shock should all come at once. She stood it pretty well."

gatsby

"I thought you didn't, if you'll pardon my — You see, I carry on a little business on the side, a sort of side line, you understand. And I thought that if you don't make very much — You're selling bonds, aren't you, old sport?" "Well, this would interest you. It wouldn't take up much of your time and you might pick up a nice bit of money. It happens to be a rather confidential sort of thing."

Tom

"I told him the truth. He came to the door while we were getting ready to leave, and when I sent down word that we weren't in he tried to force his way up-stairs. He was crazy enough to kill me if I hadn't told him who owned the car. His hand was on a revolver in his pocket every minute he was in the house. What if I did tell him? That fellow had it coming to him. He threw dust into your eyes just like he did in Daisy's, but he was a tough one. He ran over Myrtle like you'd run over a dog and never even stopped his car."

Gatsby

"I told you what's been going on. Going on for five years — and you didn't know."

wolfsheim

"I understand you're looking for a business gonnegtion."

Gatsby

"I want to wait here till Daisy goes to bed. Good night, old sport."

gatsby

"I want you and Daisy to come over to my house," "I'd like to show her around."

Gatsby

"I wanted somebody who wouldn't gossip. Daisy comes over quite often — in the afternoons."

gatsby

"I was able to do the commissioner a favor once, and he sends me a Christmas card every year."

Nick

"I wouldn't ask too much of her. You can't repeat the past."

Tom Buchanan

"I'd a little rather not be the polo player. I'd rather look at all these famous people in — in oblivion."

Tom

"I'd like to know who he is and what he does. And I think I'll make a point of finding out."

Nick

"I'll call you about noon."

Tom

"I'll let you have that car. I'll send it over to-morrow afternoon."

Tom

"I'll telephone for a taxi to take you home, and while you're waiting you and Jordan better go in the kitchen and have them get you some supper — if you want any. Come in."

myrtle

"I'll telephone my sister Catherine. She's said to be very beautiful by people who ought to know."

gatsby

"I'll tell you God's truth." I am the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West — all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford, because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It is a family tradition." "My family all died and I came into a good deal of money."

Gatsby

"I'm delighted to see you, I'm delighted that you dropped in."

The gardener

"I'm going to drain the pool to-day, Mr. Gatsby. Leaves'll start falling pretty soon, and then there's always trouble with the pipes."

Gatsby

"I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before. She'll see."

gatsby

"I'm going to make a big request of you to-day," "so I thought you ought to know something about me. I didn't want you to think I was just some nobody. You see, I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad thing that happened to me." "You'll hear about it this afternoon."

Gatsby

"I'm sorry about the clock,"

Nick

"I'm thirty. I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor."

George Wilson

"I've been here too long. I want to get away. My wife and I want to go West."

gatsby

"I've got a man in England who buys me clothes. He sends over a selection of things at the beginning of each season, spring and fall."

George Wilson

"I've got my wife locked in up there. She's going to stay there till the day after to-morrow, and then we're going to move away."

Tom

"I've heard of making a garage out of a stable but I'm the first man who ever made a stable out of a garage."

Jordan

"I've left Daisy's house. I'm at Hempstead, and I'm going down to Southampton this afternoon."

Tom

"I've made a small investigation of this fellow, I could have gone deeper if I'd known ——"

Daisy Buchanan

"I've never met so many celebrities! I liked that man — what was his name? — with the sort of blue nose."

Mr. Gatz

"If he'd of lived, he'd of been a great man. A man like James J. Hill. He'd of helped build up the country."

gatsby

"If it wasn't for the mist we could see your home across the bay," "You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock."

Daisy Buchanan

"If you want to kiss me any time during the evening, Nick, just let me know and I'll be glad to arrange it for you. Just mention my name. Or present a green card. I'm giving out green ——"

Jordan

"Imagine marrying anybody in this heat!"

Daisy Buchanan

"In case there's a fire or a flood or any act of God."

Nick

"Is Mr. Gatsby sick?"

daisy

"Is this absolutely where you live, my dearest one?" "Are you in love with me," "or why did I have to come alone?"

Mr. Gatz

"It was a madman. He must have been mad."

Michaelis

"It was an accident, George."

Gatsby

"It was an opportunity they gave to some of the officers after the Armistice. We could go to any of the universities in England or France."

Gatsby

"It was in nineteen-nineteen, I only stayed five months. That's why I can't really call myself an Oxford man."

tom

"It's a b*tch," . "Here's your money. Go and buy ten more dogs with it."

gatsby

"It's pretty, isn't it, old sport?" "Haven't you ever seen it before?"

Daisy

"It's so hot. You go. We'll ride around and meet you after. We'll meet you on some corner. I'll be the man smoking two cigarettes."

Mr. Gatz

"Jimmy always liked it better down East. He rose up to his position in the East. Were you a friend of my boy's, Mr. —?"

Mr. Gatz

"Jimmy sent it to me. I think it's a very pretty picture. It shows up well."

Mr. Gatz

"Jimmy was bound to get ahead. He always had some resolves like this or something. Do you notice what he's got about improving his mind? He was always great for that. He told me I et like a hog once, and I beat him for it."

Meyer Wolfhsheim

"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. After that my own rule is to let everything alone."

Tom

"Let's have some gas! What do you think we stopped for — to admire the view?"

Tom

"Listen, I just got here a minute ago, from New York. I was bringing you that coupe we've been talking about. That yellow car I was driving this afternoon wasn't mine — do you hear? I haven't seen it all afternoon."

Jordan

"Listen, Tom. If you're such a snob, why did you invite him to lunch?"

daisy

"Look at that," "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around."

Nick

"Look here — this isn't Mr. Gatsby. Mr. Gatsby's dead."

The dead Gatsby seemed to say

"Look here, old sport, you've got to get somebody for me. You've got to try hard. I can't go through this alone."

gatsby

"Looks very good," "One of the papers said they thought the rain would stop about four. I think it was the Journal. Have you got everything you need in the shape of — of tea?"

Daisy

"Lots of people come who haven't been invited. That girl hadn't been invited. They simply force their way in and he's too polite to object."

gatsby

"Meyer Wolfsheim? No, he's a gambler." "He's the man who fixed the World's Series back in 1919."

Gatsby

"Mrs. Buchanan . . . and Mr. Buchanan...the polo player."

nick

"Much better." "This is an unusual party for me. I haven't even seen the host. I live over there ——" I"and this man Gatsby sent over his chauffeur with an invitation."

Tom Buchanan

"My God, I believe the man's coming. Doesn't he know she doesn't want him?"

gatsby

"My house looks well, doesn't it?" "See how the whole front of it catches the light." "Yes." "It took me just three years to earn the money that bought it."

Meyer Wolfsheim

"My memory goes back to when I first met him. A young major just out of the army and covered over with medals he got in the war. He was so hard up he had to keep on wearing his uniform because he couldn't buy some regular clothes. First time I saw him was when he come into Winebrenner's poolroom at Forty-third Street and asked for a job. He hadn't eat anything for a couple of days. 'come on have some lunch with me,' I sid. He ate more than four dollars' worth of food in half an hour."

tom

"Myrtle'll be hurt if you don't come up to the apartment. Won't you, Myrtle?"

Jordan

"Nevertheless you did throw me over. 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."

Nick

"No . . . I just remembered that to-day's my birthday."

Nick

"No, he's not. It's a bona-fide deal. I happen to know about it."

gatsby

"No, old sport, I'm not. But Miss Baker has kindly consented to speak to you about this matter."

gatsby

"No, this afternoon. I happened to find out that you're taking Miss Baker to tea."

gatsby

"Nobody's coming to tea. It's too late!" "I can't wait all day."

Gatsby

"Not seeing. No, we couldn't meet. But both of us loved each other all that time, old sport, and you didn't know. I used to laugh sometimes to think that you didn't know."

Tom

"Not that day I carried you down from the Punch Bowl to keep your shoes dry? Daisy?"

Gatsby

"Nothing happened. I waited, and about four o'clock she came to the window and stood there for a minute and then turned out the light."

Nick

"Now he's dead. You were his closest friend, so I know you'll want to come to his funeral this afternoon."

Daisy

"Now see here, Tom, if you're going to make personal remarks I won't stay here a minute. Call up and order some ice for the mint julep."

Tom

"Of course it matters. I'm going to take better care of you from now on."

Gatsby

"Of course she might have loved him just for a minute, when they were first married — and loved me more even then, do you see?"

tom

"Oh, I'll stay in the East, don't you worry," "I'd be a God d*mned fool to live anywhere else."

gatsby

"Oh, I've been in several things, "I was in the drug business and then I was in the oil business. But I'm not in either one now." He looked at me with more attention. "Do you mean you've been thinking over what I proposed the other night?"

Daisy

"Oh, let's have fun, It's too hot to fuss."

George Wilson

"Oh, my Ga-od! Oh, my Ga-od! oh, Ga-od! oh, my Ga-od!"

Miss Baedeker's friend

"Oh, she's all right now. When she's had five or six cocktails she always starts screaming like that. I tell her she ought to leave it alone."

Daisy

"Oh, you want too much! I love you now — isn't that enough? I can't help what's past. I did love him once — but I loved you too."

Michaelis

"One goin' each way. Well, she, she ran out there an' the one comin' from N'york knock right into her, goin' thirty or forty miles an hour."

Daisy

"Open the whiskey, Tom and I'll make you a mint julep. Then you won't seem so stupid to yourself. . . . Look at the mint!"

Gatsby

"Please don't hurry. Why don't you — why don't you stay for supper? I wouldn't be surprised if some other people dropped in from New York."

Daisy

"Please don't! Please let's all go home. Why don't we all go home?"

Tom

"Plenty of gas. And if it runs out I can stop at a drug-store. You can buy anything at a drug-store nowadays."

Tom

"Self-control! I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that's the idea you can count me out. . . . Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions, and next they'll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white."

Gatsby

"Shall we all go in my car? I ought to have left it in the shade."

Tom

"She does, though. The trouble is that sometimes she gets foolish ideas in her head and doesn't know what she's doing. And what's more, I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart, I love her all the time."

Daisy

"She doesn't look like her father, She looks like me. She's got my hair and shape of the face."

Tom Buchanan

"She has a big dinner party and he won't know a soul there. I wonder where in the devil he met Daisy. By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish."

Gatsby

"She never loved you, do you hear? She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved any one except me!"

Police officer

"She ran out ina road. Son-of-a-bitch didn't even stopus car."

Gatsby

"She'll be all right to-morrow, I'm just going to wait here and see if he tries to bother her about that unpleasantness this afternoon. She's locked herself into her room, and if he tries any brutality she's going to turn the light out and on again."

George Wilson

"She's been talking about it for ten years. And now she's going whether she wants to or not. I'm going to get her away."

Tom

"She's not leaving me! Certainly not for a common swindler who'd have to steal the ring he put on her finger."

jordan

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

Tom

"Sit down, Daisy. What's been going on? I want to hear all about it."

Gatsby

"Sit right down. Have a cigarette or a cigar. I'll have something to drink for you in just a minute."

Miss Baedeker

"Speak for yourself! Your hand shakes. I wouldn't let you operate on me!"

Daisy

"Still — I was married in the middle of June, Louisville in June! Somebody fainted. Who was it fainted, Tom?"

Jordan

"Suppose I don't go to Southampton, and come into town this afternoon?"

wolfsheim

"Sure he went." . "He turned around in the door and says: 'Don't let that waiter take away my coffee!' Then he went out on the sidewalk, and they shot him three times in his full belly and drove away."

Tom

"That drug-store business was just small change, but you've got something on now that Walter's afraid to tell me about."

daisy

"That huge place there?" "I love it, but I don't see how you live there all alone."

Jordan

"That was his cousin. I knew his whole family history before he left. He gave me an aluminum putter that I use to-day."

Nick

"That's a good idea. Come on, Tom. Nobody wants a drink."

Daisy

"That's because your mother wanted to show you off. You dream, you. You absolute little dream."

Tom

"The ********ed coward! He didn't even stop his car."

Daisy

"The bles-sed pre-cious! Did mother get powder on your old yellowy hair? Stand up now, and say — How-de-do."

Gatsby

"The funeral's to-morrow. Three o'clock, here at the house. I wish you'd tell anybody who'd be interested."

The butler

"The master's body! I'm sorry, madame, but we can't furnish it — it's far too hot to touch this noon!"

wolfsheim

"The old Metropole," "Filled with faces dead and gone. Filled with friends gone now forever. I can't forget so long as I live the night they shot Rosy Rosenthal there. It was six of us at the table, and Rosy had eat and drunk a lot all evening. When it was almost morning the waiter came up to him with a funny look and says somebody wants to speak to him outside. 'All right,' says Rosy, and begins to get up, and I pulled him down in his chair. "'Let the bastards come in here if they want you, Rosy, but don't you, so help me, move outside this room.' "It was four o'clock in the morning then, and if we'd of raised the blinds we'd of seen daylight."

Jordan

"The rumor is, that that's Tom's girl on the telephone."

Tom

"The thing to do is to forget about the heat. You make it ten times worse by crabbing about it."

gatsby

"Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life. I accepted a commission as first lieutenant when it began. In the Argonne Forest I took two machine-gun detachments so far forward that there was a half mile gap on either side of us where the infantry couldn't advance. We stayed there two days and two nights, a hundred and thirty men with sixteen Lewis guns, and when the infantry came up at last they found the insignia of three German divisions among the piles of dead. I was promoted to be a major, and every Allied government gave me a decoration — even Montenegro, little Montenegro down on the Adriatic Sea!"

Doctor Civet

"Then you ought to leave it alone,"

Michaelis

"There was two cars, one comin', one goin', see?"

Tom

"There's sport for you, I'd like to be out there with him for about an hour."

Jordan

"They carried him into my house, because we lived just two doors from the church. And he stayed three weeks, until Daddy told him he had to get out. The day after he left Daddy died. There wasn't any connection."

Nick

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

Gatsby

"They're some people Wolfsheim wanted to do something for. They're all brothers and sisters. They used to run a small hotel."

daisy

"They're such beautiful shirts," \"It makes me sad because I've never seen such — such beautiful shirts before."

wolfsheim

"This is a nice restaurant here," "But I like across the street better!"

gatsby

"This is just a friend. I told you we'd talk about that some other time."

Jordan

"Those big movies around Fiftieth Street are cool. I love New York on summer afternoons when every one's away. There's something very sensuous about it — overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands."

Tom

"Very well, then, I won't sell you the car at all. . . . I'm under no obligations to you at all . . . and as for your bothering me about it at lunch time, I won't stand that at all!"

Tom

"We can't argue about it here. You follow me to the south side of Central Park, in front of the Plaza."

Tom Buchanan

"We don't go around very much. In fact, I was just thinking I don't know a soul here."

Miss Baedeker's friend

"We heard you yelling, so I said to Doc Civet here: 'There's somebody that needs your help, Doc.'"

Jordan

"We're all white here."

Daisy

"We're getting old. If we were young we'd rise and dance."

Mr. Sloane

"Well — think ought to be starting home."

Mr. Gatz

"Well, I'm all right now. Where have they got Jimmy?"

gatsby

"Well, I'm going to tell you something about my life," "I don't want you to get a wrong idea of me from all these stories you hear."

Tom

"Well, he certainly must have strained himself to get this menagerie together."

Jordan

"Well, he said he knew you. He said he was raised in Louisville. Asa Bird brought him around at the last minute and asked if we had room for him."

Klipspringer

"Well, the fact is — the truth of the matter is that I'm staying with some people up here in Greenwich, and they rather expect me to be with them to-morrow. In fact, there's a sort of picnic or something. Of course I'll do my very best to get away."

Tom

"Well, you take my coupe and let me drive your car to town."

Klipspringer

"What I called up about was a pair of shoes I left there. I wonder if it'd be too much trouble to have the butler send them on. You see, they're tennis shoes, and I'm sort of helpless without them. My address is care of B. F. ——"

Jordan

"What a low, vulgar girl!"

Gatsby

"What about it? I guess your friend Walter Chase wasn't too proud to come in on it."

Tom

"What kind of a row are you trying to cause in my house anyhow?"

Daisy

"What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? and the day after that, and the next thirty years?"

Tom

"What's the matter, Nick? Do you object to shaking hands with me?"

Meyer Wolfsheim

"When a man gets killed I never like to get mixed up in it in any way. I keep out. When I was a young man it was different — if a friend of mine died, no matter how, I stuck with them to the end. You may think that's sentimental, but I mean it — to the bitter end."

wilson

"When are you going to sell me that car?"

Tom

"Who are you, anyhow? You're one of that bunch that hangs around with Meyer Wolfsheim — that much I happen to know. I've made a little investigation into your affairs — and I'll carry it further to-morrow."

Tom Buchanan

"Who is this Gatsby anyhow? Some big bootlegger?"

Gatsby

"Why not let her alone, old sport? You're the one that wanted to come to town."

News reporter

"Why — any statement to give out."

Daisy

"Why — how could I love him — possibly?"

Tom

"Wreck! That's good. Wilson'll have a little business at last."

Pammy

"Yes, Aunt Jordan's got on a white dress too."

Gatsby

"Yes, but of course I'll say I was. You see, when we left New York she was very nervous and she thought it would steady her to drive — and this woman rushed out at us just as we were passing a car coming the other way. It all happened in a minute, but it seemed to me that she wanted to speak to us, thought we were somebody she knew. Well, first Daisy turned away from the woman toward the other car, and then she lost her nerve and turned back. The second my hand reached the wheel I felt the shock — it must have killed her instantly."

Nick

"Yes, it's all quiet. You'd better come home and get some sleep."

gatsby

"Yes. . . . well, I can't talk now. . . . I can't talk now, old sport. . . . I said a small town. . . . he must know what a small town is. . . . well, he's no use to us if Detroit is his idea of a small town. . . . "

Mr. Sloane's female partner

"You come to supper with me. Both of you."

George Wilson

"You don't have to tell me what kind of car it was! I know what kind of car it was!"

Gatsby

"You don't understand. You're not going to take care of her any more."

Jordan

"You forget there's a lady present."

Daisy

"You know I love you."

Gatsby

"You know, old sport, I've never used that pool all summer?"

Tom

"You must have gone there about the time Biloxi went to New Haven."

Gatsby

"You must see the faces of many people you've heard about."

Nick

"You ought to go away. It's pretty certain they'll trace your car." "Go to Atlantic City for a week, or up to Montreal."

Michaelis

"You ought to have a church, George, for times like this. You must have gone to church once. Didn't you get married in a church? Listen, George, listen to me. Didn't you get married in a church?"

Daisy

"You resemble the advertisement of the man. You know the advertisement of the man ——"

Jordan

"You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to make such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person. I thought it was your secret pride."

Tom

"You think I'm pretty dumb, don't you? Perhaps I am, but I have a — almost a second sight, sometimes, that tells me what to do. Maybe you don't believe that, but science ——"

Tom

"You two start on home, Daisy. In Mr. Gatsby's car."

Nick

"You wait here. I'll see if there's any sign of a commotion."

Jordan

"You weren't so nice to me last night."

Meyer's Wolfsheim's secretary

"You young men think you can force your way in here any time. We're getting sickantired of it. When I say he's in Chicago, he's in Chicago."

nick

"You're acting like a little boy," "Not only that, but you're rude. Daisy's sitting in there all alone."

Tom

"You're crazy! I can't speak about what happened five years ago, because I didn't know Daisy then — and I'll be damned if I see how you got within a mile of her unless you brought the groceries to the back door. But all the rest of that's a ********ed lie. Daisy loved me when she married me and she loves me now."

Tom

"You're crazy, Nick. Crazy as hell. I don't know what's the matter with you."

Michaelis

"You're morbid, George. This has been a strain to you and you don't know what you're saying. You'd better try and sit quiet till morning."

Daisy

"You're revolting. Do you know why we left Chicago? I'm surprised that they didn't treat you to the story of that little spree."

wolfsheim

"You're very polite, but I belong to another generation," "You sit here and discuss your sports and your young ladies and your ——" "As for me, I am fifty years old, and I won't impose myself on you any longer."

Slagle

"Young Parke's in trouble. They picked him up when he handed the bonds over the counter. They got a circular from New York giving 'em the numbers just five minutes before. What d'you know about that, hey? You never can tell in these hick towns ——"

gatsby

"Your face is familiar," "Weren't you in the Third Division during the war?"

Gatsby

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

wolfsheim

"— So I took one look at him," "and what do you think I did?"

myrtle

Crazy about him!" "Who said I was crazy about him? I never was any more crazy about him than I was about that man there."

myrtle

I think it's cute," "How much is it?"

tom

I'll meet you by the news-stand on the lower level."

gatsby

That? That's Mr. Dan Cody, old sport." "He's dead now. He used to be my best friend years ago."

nick

who thought this: "Anything can happen now that we've slid over this bridge," "anything at all. . . . "

tom

"Did you give Nick a little heart to heart talk on the veranda?"

owl eyes

"Don't ask me," "I know very little about driving — next to nothing. It happened, and that's all I know"

daisy

"Don't look at me," Daisy retorted, "I've been trying to get you to New York all afternoon."

myrtle

"Get some chairs, why don't you, so somebody can sit down."

jordan

"Good night," "I haven't heard a word."

tom

"Hello, Wilson, old man," "How's business?"

daisy

"How gorgeous! Let's go back, Tom. To-morrow!"

daisy

"Hulking"

nick

"I can't seem to remember, but I think we talked about the Nordic race. Yes, I'm sure we did. It sort of crept up on us and first thing you know ——"

daisy

"I forgot to ask you something, and it's important. We heard you were engaged to a girl out West."

daisy

"I know you didn't mean to, but you did do it. That's what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great, big, hulking physical specimen of a ——"

lucille

"I like to come," "I never care what I do, so I always have a good time. When I was here last I tore my gown on a chair, and he asked me my name and address — inside of a week I got a package from Croirier's with a new evening gown in it."

daisy

"I looked outdoors for a minute, and it's very romantic outdoors. There's a bird on the lawn that I think must be a nightingale come over on the Cunard or White Star Line. He's singing away ——" Her voice sang: "It's romantic, isn't it, Tom?"

daisy

"I love to see you at my table, Nick. You remind me of a — of a rose, an absolute rose. Doesn't he?" "An absolute rose?"

mr. mckee

"I should change the light," "I'd like to bring out the modelling of the features. And I'd try to get hold of all the back hair."

gatsby

"I thought you knew, old sport. I'm afraid I'm not a very good host."

jordan

"I thought you might be here," "I remembered you lived next door to ——"

myrtle

"I told that boy about the ice." "These people! You have to keep after them all the time."

myrtle

"I want to get one of those dogs," "I want to get one for the apartment. They're nice to have — a dog."

tom

"I want to see you," "Get on the next train."

owl eyes

"I was brought by a woman named Roosevelt," ="Mrs. Claud Roosevelt. Do you know her? I met her somewhere last night. I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."

gatsby

"I was in the Seventh Infantry until June nineteen-eighteen. I knew I'd seen you somewhere before."

myrtle

"I'd like to get one of those police dogs; I don't suppose you got that kind?"

daisy

"I'll tell you a family secret," It's about the butler's nose. Do you want to hear about the butler's nose?"

nick

"I'm a bond man."

jordan

"I'm absolutely in training."

myrtle

"I'm going to have the McKees come up," "And, of course, I got to call up my sister, too."

daisy

"I'm p-paralyzed with happiness."

jordan

"I'm stiff," she complained, "I've been lying on that sofa for as long as I can remember."

mr. mckee

"I've done some nice things out on Long Island," "Two of them we have framed down-stairs." "Two of them we have framed down-stairs."

jordan

"I've just heard the most amazing thing," "How long were we in there?"

gatsby

"If you want anything just ask for it, old sport," "Excuse me. I will rejoin you later."

myrtle

"It was on the two little seats facing each other that are always the last ones left on the train. I was going up to New York to see my sister and spend the night. He had on a dress suit and patent leather shoes, and I couldn't keep my eyes off him, but every time he looked at me I had to pretend to be looking at the advertisement over his head. When we came into the station he was next to me, and his white shirt-front pressed against my arm, and so I told him I'd have to call a policeman, but he knew I lied. I was so excited that when I got into a taxi with him I didn't hardly know I wasn't getting into a subway train. All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.'"

jordan

"It was — simply amazing," "But I swore I wouldn't tell it and here I am tantalizing you." "Please come and see me. . . . Phone book . . . Under the name of Mrs. Sigourney Howard . . . My aunt . . . "

daisy

"It'll show you how I've gotten to feel about — things. Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where. I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling, and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl. She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. 'all right,' I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool — that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."

owl eyes

"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?"

myrtle

"It's just a crazy old thing," "I just slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like."

nick

"It's libel. I'm too poor."

jordan

"Let's get out," "This is much too polite for me."

myrtle

"My dear," she told her sister in a high, mincing shout, "most of these fellas will cheat you every time. All they think of is money. I had a woman up here last week to look at my feet, and when she gave me the bill you'd of thought she had my appendicitis out."

catherine

"Neither of them can stand the person they're married to." "What I say is, why go on living with them if they can't stand them? If I was them I'd get a divorce and get married to each other right away."

catherine

"No, we just went to Monte Carlo and back. We went by way of Marseilles. We had over twelve hundred dollars when we started, but we got gypped out of it all in two days in the private rooms. We had an awful time getting back, I can tell you. God, how I hated that town!" "I almost married a little kyke who'd been after me for years. I knew he was below me. Everybody kept saying to me: 'Lucille, that man's 'way below you!' But if I hadn't met Chester, he'd of got me sure."

jordan

"Now you're started on the subject," "Well, he told me once he was an Oxford man."I just don't think he went there."

daisy

"Of course you will," "In fact I think I'll arrange a marriage. Come over often, Nick, and I'll sort of — oh — fling you together. You know — lock you up accidentally in linen closets and push you out to sea in a boat, and all that sort of thing ——"

catharine

"She really ought to get away from him," "They've been living over that garage for eleven years. And tom's the first sweetie she ever had."

lucille

"Sure I did. I was going to wear it to-night, but it was too big in the bust and had to be altered. It was gas blue with lavender beads. Two hundred and sixty-five dollars."

myrtle

"The only crazy I was was when I married him. I knew right away I made a mistake. He borrowed somebody's best suit to get married in, and never even told me about it, and the man came after it one day when he was out. 'oh, is that your suit?' I said. 'this is the first I ever heard about it.' But I gave it to him and then I lay down and cried to beat the band all afternoon."

nick

"The whole town is desolate. All the cars have the left rear wheel painted black as a mourning wreath, and there's a persistent wail all night along the north shore."

tom

"This idea is that we're Nordics. I am, and you are, and you are, and ——" "— And we've produced all the things that go to make civilization — oh, science and art, and all that. Do you see?"

daisy

"Tom's getting very profound," "He reads deep books with long words in them. What was that word we ——"

jordan

"Tom's got some woman in New York." "She might have the decency not to telephone him at dinner time. Don't you think?"

tom

"Very romantic," "If it's light enough after dinner, I want to take you down to the stables."

gatsby

"Want to go with me, old sport? Just near the shore along the Sound."

daisy

"We don't know each other very well, Nick," "Even if we are cousins. You didn't come to my wedding."

tom

"We're getting off," he insisted. "I want you to meet my girl."

daisy

"Well, he wasn't always a butler; he used to be the silver polisher for some people in New York that had a silver service for two hundred people. He had to polish it from morning till night, until finally it began to affect his nose ——" "Yes. Things went from bad to worse, until finally he had to give up his position."

tom

"Well, it's a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be — will be utterly submerged. It's all scientific stuff; it's been proved."

tom

"Well, these books are all scientific," "This fellow has worked out the whole thing. It's up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things."

catherine

"Well, they say he's a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm's. That's where all his money comes from."

nick's dad

"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in the world haven't had the advantages that you've had."

daisy

"Why candles? "In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year." She looked at us all radiantly. "Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it."

nick

"Why, yes. I was in the Ninth Machine-gun Battalion."

tom

"You McKees have something to drink," "Get some more ice and mineral water, Myrtle, before everybody goes to sleep."

tom

"You are!" He took down his drink as if it were a drop in the bottom of a glass. "How you ever get anything done is beyond me."

nick

"You make me feel uncivilized, Daisy," "Can't you talk about crops or something?"

jordan

"You ought to live in California —"

daisy

"You see I think everything's terrible anyhow," "Everybody thinks so — the most advanced people. And I know. I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything." "Sophisticated — God, I'm sophisticated!"

catherine

"You see," cried Catherine triumphantly. She lowered her voice again. "It's really his wife that's keeping them apart. She's a Catholic, and they don't believe in divorce."

nick

"You're a rotten driver," "Either you ought to be more careful, or you oughtn't to drive at all."

daisy

"do they miss me?"

some man

"how do you get to west egg village"

tom

"i've got a nice place here"

tom

"it belonged to Demaine, the oil man"

mrs. mckee

My dear," "I'm going to give you this dress as soon as I'm through with it. I've got to get another one to-morrow. I'm going to make a list of all the things I've got to get. A massage and a wave, and a collar for the dog, and one of those cute little ash-trays where you touch a spring, and a wreath with a black silk bow for mother's grave that'll last all summer. I got to write down a list so I won't forget all the things I got to do."

myrtle

Yes, but listen," said "at least you didn't marry him. Well, I married him," "And that's the difference between your case and mine." "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."

tom

seemed to say: "now don't think my opinion on these matters is final, just because i'm stronger and more of a man than you are"

jordan

who is daisy talking about: "Her family is one aunt about a thousand years old. Besides, Nick's going to look after her, aren't you, Nick? She's going to spend lots of week-ends out here this summer. I think the home influence will be very good for her."

pammy

who is daisy talking about: "She's asleep. She's three years old. Haven't you ever seen her?"