Gatsby: Match Quotes with Speakers

This character is labeled as "the boarder." Claims to be a relative of Beethoven's.

Klipspringer

"And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy."

Jordan Baker

You see," 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."

Catherine

"That's the best thing a woman could be: a beautiful little fool."

Daisy Buchanan

"I told her she might fool me but she couldn't fool God. I told her to look to the window and said 'God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing.'"

George Wilson

"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"

Henry Gatz

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

Jay Gatsby

"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."

Meyer Wolfsheim

"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?

Michaelis

"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."

Myrtle Wilson

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

Nick Carraway

"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."

Owl Eyes

"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.

Tom Buchanan