Jordan Baker: It all makes sense. It all makes sense!
Nick Carraway: What makes sense?
Jordan Baker: Everything! Oh, but here I am tantalizing you when I swore I wouldn't tell.
Nick Carraway: Just tell me.
Jordan Baker: Oh, Nick. I'm sorry, I swore. I swore I wouldn't tell.
Tom Buchanan: Civilization is going to pieces! Have you read "The Rise of the Colored Empires" by this fellow, Goddard? Everybody ought to read it. The idea is it's up to us, the dominant race, to watch out or these
[points to black servant]
Tom Buchanan: other races will have control of things.
Daisy Buchanan: Tom's very
profound lately. He reads deep books with long words in them.
Tom Buchanan: It's been proved. It's scientific.
Daisy Buchanan: We've got to beat them down.
Nick Carraway: Gatsby's real name was James Gatz. His parents were dirt-poor farmers from North Dakota, but he never accepted them as his parents at all. In his own imagination, he was a son of God, destined for future glory.
Tom Buchanan: You know, a lot of these newly rich people are just filthy bootleggers?
Daisy Buchanan: Not Gatsby. He's a businessman. He owned a lot of drugstores.
Tom Buchanan: [scoffs] Businessman!
Meyer Wolfsheim: [to Nick] I understand you're looking for a business connection.
Jay Gatsby: No! No, no. No. No. No. No. This isn't the man, Meyer. Remember, this is the *friend* that I told you about.
Meyer Wolfsheim: Oh! Oh, I beg your pardon. I had the wrong man!
Policeman: Pull over! Pull over to the curb!
Jay Gatsby: All right, Old Sport. All right.
[shows him his business card]
Policeman: Right, you are! I'll know you next time, Mr. Gatsby.
Meyer Wolfsheim: Lookin' at my tiepin? Finest specimen of human molar.