Quotes About Wealth

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…

happened that on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all. Their house was even more elaborate than

There was nothing to look at from under the tree except Gatsby's enormous house, so I stared at it, like Kant at his church steeple, for half an hour.

the snow of twenty-nine wasn't real snow. If you didn't want it to be snow, you just paid some money.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I spent my Saturday nights in New York, because those gleaming, dazzling parties of his were with me so vividly that I could still hear the music and the laughter, faint and incessant, from his garden, and the cars going up and down his drive.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Her voice is full of money

In ten seconds he had completely lost his appetite and gained on hundred thousand dollars.

You always look so cool, she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.

It was Dick's car, a Renault so dwarfish

Oh, blessed are the simple rich, for they inherit the earth!

It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. . . .

One thing's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get—children.

Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes, and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor.

Her voice is full of money," he said suddenly. That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money—that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it.… High in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl.…

Young men just don't drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald

He hadn't once ceased looking at Daisy and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbour's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires

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

It was full of money—that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it…. High in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl….

Tom et Daisy étaient deux êtres parfaitement insouciants — ils cassaient les objets, ils cassaient les humains, puis ils s'abritaient derrière leur argent, ou leur extrême insouciance, ou je-ne-sais-quoi qui les tenait ensemble, et ils laissent à d'autres le soin de nettoyer et de balayer les débris.