As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.

Why they came east I don't know. They had spent a year in France, for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.

I'm afraid I'm in love with you and that's not the best thing that could happen.

Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America. It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York—and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land.

It is the custom to look back on ourselves of the boom days with a disapproval that approaches horror...But it had its virtues, that old boom: Life was a great deal larger and gayer for most people, and the stampede to the Spartan virtues in times of war and famine shouldn't make us too dizzy to remember its hilarious glory.

This responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby impressionability which is dignified under the name of the ‘creative temperament'—it was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again. No—Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what.

The instant her voice broke off ceasing to compel my attention, my belief, I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said.

The diplomats were at their customary business of making the world safe for new wars.