WOMAN in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 But no one knows the woman's name, and no one cares.
2 "I was brought by a woman named Roosevelt," he continued.
3 Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply--I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.
4 Gatsby indicated a gorgeous, scarcely human orchid of a woman who sat in state under a white plum tree.
5 Well, first Daisy turned away from the woman toward the other car, and then she lost her nerve and turned back.
6 Then I heard footsteps on a stairs and in a moment the thickish figure of a woman blocked out the light from the office door.
7 As for Tom, the fact that he "had some woman in New York" was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book.
8 They were a party of three on horseback--Tom and a man named Sloane and a pretty woman in a brown riding habit who had been there previously.
9 In the foreground four solemn men in dress suits are walking along the sidewalk with a stretcher on which lies a drunken woman in a white evening dress.
10 Mr. Sloane didn't enter into the conversation but lounged back haughtily in his chair; the woman said nothing either--until unexpectedly, after two highballs, she became cordial.
11 You see, when we left New York she was very nervous and she thought it would steady her to drive--and this woman rushed out at us just as we were passing a car coming the other way.
12 I had a dog, at least I had him for a few days until he ran away, and an old Dodge and a Finnish woman who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove.
13 I picked it up with a weary bend and handed it back to her, holding it at arm's length and by the extreme tip of the corners to indicate that I had no designs upon it--but every one near by, including the woman, suspected me just the same.
14 The straw seats of the car hovered on the edge of combustion; the woman next to me perspired delicately for a while into her white shirtwaist, and then, as her newspaper dampened under her fingers, lapsed despairingly into deep heat with a desolate cry.