EXCITED in Classic Quotes

1  You must remember, old sport, she was very excited this afternoon.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8

2  It excited him too that many men had already loved Daisy--it increased her value in his eyes.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8

3  I was so excited that when I got into a taxi with him I didn't hardly know I wasn't getting into a subway train.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2

4  Even when the East excited me most, even when I was most keenly aware of its superiority to the bored, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which spared only the children and the very old--even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

5  Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth--but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered "Listen," a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

6  The groups change more swiftly, swell with new arrivals, dissolve and form in the same breath--already there are wanderers, confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable, become for a sharp, joyous moment the center of a group and then excited with triumph glide on through the sea-change of faces and voices and color under the constantly changing light.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3