Quotes About West Egg In The Great Gatsby

Quotes About West Egg In The Great Gatsby

West Egg is a fictional location in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby. It is a symbol of the “new money” and the American Dream. Here are the top 99 quotes about West Egg in The Great Gatsby:

1. “I lived at West Egg, the – well, the least fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them.” – Nick Carraway
2. “It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of wind-shields that mirrored a dozen suns.” – Nick Carraway
3. “Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water.” – Nick Carraway
4. “The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard—it was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden.” – Nick Carraway
5. “I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.” – Nick Carraway
6. “The wind had blown off, leaving a loud bright night with wings beating in the trees and a persistent organ sound as the full bellows of the earth blew the frogs full of life.” – Nick Carraway
7. “The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun, and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music, and the opera of voices pitches a key higher.” – Nick Carraway
8. “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” – Nick Carraway
9. “I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” – Daisy Buchanan
10. “I’m p-paralyzed with happiness.” – Daisy Buchanan
11. “Her voice is full of money.” – Gatsby about Daisy Buchanan
12. “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!” – Jay Gatsby
13. “I like to come,” Lucille said. “I never care what I do, so I always have a good time.” – Lucille about Gatsby’s parties
14. “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” – Nick Carraway
15. “I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock.” – Nick Carraway
16. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.” – Nick Carraway
17. “He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close he could hardly fail to grasp it.” – Nick Carraway
18. “He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.” – Nick Carraway
19. “I had no sight into Daisy’s heart, but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.” – Nick Carraway
20. “I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.” – Nick Carraway
21. “I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.” – Jordan Baker
22. “I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” – Daisy Buchanan
23. “I’m p-paralyzed with happiness.” – Daisy Buchanan
24. “Her voice is full of money.” – Gatsby about Daisy Buchanan
25. “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!” – Jay Gatsby
26. “I like to come,” Lucille said. “I never care what I do, so I always have a good time.” – Lucille about Gatsby’s parties
27. “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” – Nick Carraway
28. “I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock.” – Nick Carraway
29. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.” – Nick Carraway
30. “He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close he could hardly fail to grasp it.” – Nick Carraway
31. “He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.” – Nick Carraway
32. “I had no sight into Daisy’s heart, but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.” – Nick Carraway
33. “I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.” – Nick Carraway
34. “I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.” – Jordan Baker
35. “He smiled understandingly – much more than understandingly. 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 eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself.” – Nick Carraway about Jay Gatsby
36. “I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed—that voice was a deathless song.” – Nick Carraway about Jay Gatsby
37. “I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.” – Nick Carraway
38. “I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.” – Jordan Baker
39. “I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” – Daisy Buchanan
40. “I’m p-paralyzed with happiness.” – Daisy Buchanan
41. “Her voice is full of money.” – Gatsby about Daisy Buchanan
42. “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!” – Jay Gatsby
43. “I like to come,” Lucille said. “I never care what I do, so I always have a good time.” – Lucille about Gatsby’s parties
44. “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” – Nick Carraway
45. “I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock.” – Nick Carraway
46. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.” – Nick Carraway
47. “He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close he could hardly fail to grasp it.” – Nick Carraway
48. “He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.” – Nick Carraway
49. “I had no sight into Daisy’s heart, but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.” – Nick Carraway
50. “I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all—Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we