Quotes From Nick In The Great Gatsby

Here are the top 99 quotes from Nick in “The Great Gatsby”:

“I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.”
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
“I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
“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.”
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.”
“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.”
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
“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.”
“Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.”
“I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.”
“I like to come to New York. I like to come, for a week or two, to the Waldorf-Astoria, where I feel comfortable and secure.”
“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
“I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.”
“I am not even faintly like a rose.”
“I have been drunk just twice in my life, and the second time was that afternoon.”
“I was so excited by her youth and beauty that I couldn’t help but feel a little intimidated.”
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
“I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.”
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.”
“It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America.”
“Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.”
“My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this middle-western city for three generations.”
“The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.”
“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”
“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
“The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself.”
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
“This is a valley of ashes–a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens, where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.”
“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that have happened to me.”
“You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
“I am 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.”
“I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
“I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn’t believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared.”
“I like large parties. They’re so intimate.”
“I married him because I thought he was a gentleman,” she said finally. “I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick my shoe.”
“I’m p-paralyzed with happiness.”
“Is this absolutely where you live, my dearest one?”
“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
“The man who comes to my house doesn’t even know where I live.”
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.”
“This is a valley of ashes–a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens, where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.”
“We were sitting at a table with a man of about my age.”
“When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.”
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one…just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that have happened to me.”
“You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”
“I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.”
“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”
“I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.”
“I am not even faintly like a rose.”
“I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.”
“I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.”
“I like to come to New York. I like to come, for a week or two, to the Waldorf-Astoria, where I feel comfortable and secure.”
“I was so excited by her youth and beauty that I couldn’t help but feel a little intimidated.”
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
“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.”
“I’m p-paralyzed with happiness.”
“Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.”
“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.”
“I have been drunk just twice in my life, and the second time was that afternoon.”
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
“I like large parties. They’re so intimate.”
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