“She was incurably dishonest.”

“Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever, shrewd men, and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible. She was incurably dishonest. She wasn't able to endure being at a disadvantage and, given this unwillingness, I suppose she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young in order to keep that cool, insolent smile turned to the world and yet satisfy the demands of her hard, jaunty body.”

“She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.”

“She plucked a twig and broke it, but she found no spring in it.”

“She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game”

“He wondered idly whether she was a poor conversationalist because she got no attention or got no attention because she was a poor conversationalist.”

“She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.”