Great Gatsby Nick Quotes - Page 2

• Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Running, Morning, Years

  Great Gatsby (1925) ch. 9

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• Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Honesty, People, Virtue

  The Great Gatsby ch. 3 (1925)

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• 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.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Father, Missing, Fundamentals

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.480, e-artnow

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• A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Fundamentals, Birth, Great Gatsby Important

  The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

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