Irony Quotes in The Great Gatsby

It took me just three years to earn the money that bought it.

Americans, while willing, even eager, to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

"My God, I believe the man's coming," said Tom. "Doesn't he know she doesn't want him?"

Her expression was curiously familiar—it was an expression I had often seen on women's faces, but on Myrtle Wilson's face it seemed purposeless and inexplicable until I realized that her eyes, wide with jealous terror, were fixed not on Tom, but on Jordan Baker, whom she took to be his wife.

Go on. He won't annoy you. I think he realizes that his presumptuous little flirtation is over.

"That's an advertisement," Michaelis assured him. Something made him turn away from the window and look back into the room. But Wilson stood there a long time, his face close to the window pane, nodding into the twilight.

When a man gets killed I never like to get mixed up in it in any way. I keep out. When I was a young man it was different—if a friend of mine died, no matter how, I stuck with them to the end. You may think that's sentimental, but I mean it—to the bitter end.

After that I felt a certain shame for Gatsby—one gentleman to whom I telephoned implied that he had got what he deserved. However, that was my fault, for he was one of those who used to sneer most bitterly at Gatsby on the courage of Gatsby's liquor, and I should have known better than to call him.

"Oh, that's all right," he said carelessly. "I don't want to put you to any trouble."