GARDENS in Classic Quotes

1  In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3  The living room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it so that to move about was to stumble continually over scenes of ladies swinging in the gardens of Versailles.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  Turning me around by one arm he moved a broad flat hand along the front vista, including in its sweep a sunken Italian garden, a half acre of deep pungent roses and a snub-nosed motor boat that bumped the tide off shore.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  With enchanting murmurs Daisy admired this aspect or that of the feudal silhouette against the sky, admired the gardens, the sparkling odor of jonquils and the frothy odor of hawthorn and plum blossoms and the pale gold odor of kiss-me-at-the-gate.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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