Irony Quotes in The Great Gatsby

Taking my hat from the chandelier, I followed.

Daisy was not a Catholic, and I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.

Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission.

And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy.

It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.

I had taken two finger-bowls of champagne, and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental, and profound.

It made no difference to me. Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply—I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.

Gatsby hesitated, then added, coolly: "He's the man who fixed the World's Series back in 1919."

"I'll tell you God's truth." His right hand suddenly ordered divine retribution to stand by. "I am the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West—all dead now. I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford, because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years. It is a family tradition."

"What part of the Middle West?" I inquired casually. "San Francisco." "I see."