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Daisy Buchanan quotes

A character in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

9 quotes spoken by or about Daisy Buchanan, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

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I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
Daisy Buchanan (dialogue) · F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter 1
Her voice is full of money.
Jay Gatsby (dialogue) · F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter 7
What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
Daisy Buchanan (dialogue) · F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter 7
Oh, you want too much! I love you now—isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past. I did love him once—but I loved you too.
Daisy Buchanan (dialogue) · F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter 7
They’re such beautiful shirts. It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such—such beautiful shirts before.
Daisy Buchanan (dialogue) · F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter 5
I’d like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.
Daisy Buchanan (dialogue) · F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter 5
I’m p-paralysed with happiness.
Daisy Buchanan (dialogue) · F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter 1
Everybody thinks so—the most advanced people. And I know. I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything.
Daisy Buchanan (dialogue) · F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter 1
Sophisticated—God, I’m sophisticated!
Daisy Buchanan (dialogue) · F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter 1

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