Quotes About Intrigue

A precocious mistress of the long look, the sustained smile, the private voice and the delicate touch, devices of generations

Aunque no estaba propiamente enamorado, sentía una especie de tierna curiosidad.

Gloria had lulled his mind to sleep. She, who seemed of all women the wisest and the finest, hung like a brilliant curtain across his doorways, shutting out the light of the sun. In those first years what he believed bore invariably the stamp of Gloria; he saw the sun always through the pattern of the curtain.

I can't tell you just how wonderful she is. I don't want anyone to know.

He waited rather breathlessly for her next remark...

He stared at her, and the impression of her beauty grew until, uncommitted by a word, by even a formal introduction, he felt himself going out toward her, watching the turn of her lips and the shifting of her cheeks when she smiled.

What was in the bags?" she asked softly. "Florida mud," he answered. That was one of two true things I told you.

unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought—frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or

I liked to walk up Fith Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove.

She narrowed her eyes and shivered. Lucille shivered. We all turned and looked around for Gatsby. 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.

Like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars

Where are you from? inquired Anthony. He knew, but beauty had rendered him thoughtless.

As our credulity switched back to her she leaned forward with enthusiasm. 'You look at him sometimes when he thinks nobody's looking at him. I'll bet he killed a man.' She narrowed her eyes and shivered.

Ils sont arrivés au coucher du soleil, et pendant que nous naviguions parmi des centaines d'invités en effervescence, Daisy faisait jouer dans un murmure les sortilèges de sa voix.

molti tipi curiosi e reso vittima di non pochi inveterati scocciatori.

Perhaps Daisy never went in for amour at all--and yet there's something in that voice of hers...

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. Myrtle

it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to determine what share was his of our local heavens.

I wasn't actually in love, but felt a sort of tender curiosity

I hadn't the faintest idea what 'this matter' was, but I was more annoyed than interested.

A??k olduÄŸumu söyleyemem ama ona kar?? müÅŸfik bir merak uyanm??t? içimde.

Tahtsin ära minna ja sumedas õhtuhämaruses pargi poole jalutada, aga iga kord, kui ma lahkumist üritasin, mässiti mind lärmakasse, pöörasesse vaidlusse, mis kiskus mu nagu köitega toolile tagasi. Ent küllap vaatas samal ajal mõni juhuslik möödamineja pimenevalt tänavalt üles, uudistades inimsaladusi, mida varjas meie kollaste akende rida.

I was within and without simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life

But there was a change in Gatsby that was simply confounding. He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room.