Gatsby Quotes

"I married him because I thought he was a gentleman... but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe. He had to borrow a suit for our wedding."

Myrtle said this when explaining her and George's marriage.

"a small block of yellow bricks sitting at the edge of the wasteland."

Nick

"She was an incurable dishonest."

Nick describes Jordan as this as she lies all the time.

"So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight—watching over nothing."

Nick says this describing a situation where Gatsby was waiting on Daisy. At this point Nick believed that Daisy would not choose Gatsby.

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

Nick says this to Gatsby right before Gatsby is killed.

"I did love him once—but I loved you too."

When Daisy has had enough of Gatsby making her feel bad she attempts to explain to him that she cannot change the past when she married Tom.