F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby Quotes

“It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.”
― F Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

“At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”
― F Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
― F Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

“The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.”
― F Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

“A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.”
― F Scott Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

“I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F Scott Fitzgerald's, F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby