The Great Gatsby

• I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties, there isn’t any privacy.

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• It’s an advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don’t see.

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• I keep it always full of interesting people, night and day - people who do intriguing things. Celebrated people.

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• Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, remember that some people haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.

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• Why go on living with someone if you can’t stand them?

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• Everyone 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.

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• There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

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• There is no difference between men so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

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• There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

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• Human sympathy has its limits.

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• Tom and Daisy were careless people - they smashed up things. They then retreated into their money - or whatever it was, that kept them together and let other people clean up their mess.