What are many different quotes and examples of appearance vs. reality in the great gatsby?

Gatsby is able to reinvent his youth; his appearance and conduct belie the reality.

“I’ll tell you God’s truth…I am the son of some wealthy people in the middle-west.”

Education:

In Chapter Four, Gatsby tells Nick he was an Oxford man. In Chapter Seven, he changes that claim with yet another lie to Tom, in which he says he only spent a brief amount of time there. He then says, “that’s why I can’t really call myself an Oxford man.”