The Great Gatsby Quotes
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"Her voice is full of money," he said suddenly.
That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money – that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it… high in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl […].
Context
We're getting toward the end of The Great Gatsby here, and Gatsby is dishing on Daisy (in the privacy of his own...Nick).
The point of his comment? Money isn't something you can separate from the body. If you're born with money, you're born with money—and everyone knows it. That's also why everyone knows Gatsby's faking it.
Where you've heard it
This is a great way to describe someone as snooty or entitled without actually using those words. Not that we recommend it.
Pretentious Factor
If you were to drop this quote at a dinner party, would you get an in-unison "awww" or would everyone roll their eyes and never invite you back? Here it is, on a scale of 1-10.
The person you're talking about is probably more pretentious than you are for saying it.