The Great Gatsby

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

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

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

The officer looked at Daisy in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at some time

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."