Great Expectations Quotes

People are put in the Hulks because they murder, and because they rob, and forge, and do all sorts of bad; and they always begin by asking questions. Now you get along to bed!

Mrs. Joe

...lies is lies. Howsoever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, and work round to the same. Don't you tell no more of 'em, Pip.

Joe

Pride is not all of one kind...[Joe] may be too proud to let any one take him out of a place that he is competent to fill, and fills well and with respect.

Biddy

...it is a principle of [Matthew Pocket's] that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood, and that the more varnish you put on, the more

Herbert

I'm wrong in these clothes. I'm wrong out of the forge, the kitchen, or off th'meshes.

Joe

We have no choice, you and I, but to obey our instructions. We are not free to follow our own devices, you and I.

Estella

I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.

Estella

Miss Havisham gives you to him as the greatest slight and injury that could be done to the many far better men who admire you, and to the few who truly love you. Among those few, there may be one who loves you even as dearly, though he has not loved you

Pip

Believe this: when she first came to me, I meant to save her from misery like my own.

Miss Havisham

What have I done?

Miss Havisham

May I?

Mr. Pumblechook

...now, when suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Estella

But if you think as Money can make compensation to me for the loss of the little child�what come to the forge�and ever the best of friends!�

Joe

You may be sure, dear Joe ... that I shall never forget you.

Pip

On this day of the year, long before you were born, this heap of decay," stabbing with her crutched stick at the pile of cobwebs on the table but not touching it, "was brought here. It and I have worn away together. The mice have gnawed at it, and sharpe

Miss Havisham

Do you feel you have lost her?

Miss Havisham

I am not a-going fur to tell you my life, like a song or a story-book

Magwitch

Hold your noise!

Magwitch

You may kiss me if you like

Estella

if this boy ain't grateful this night, he never will be!

Mrs. Joe

And the communication I have got to make is, that he has Great Expectations

Mr. Jaggers

To think [...] that I should have been the humble instrument of leading up to this, is a proud reward

Mr. Pumblechook

we shall most likely meet pretty often. Good day

Wemmick

You call me a lucky fellow

Pip

The idea of its being YOU!

Pip

Why should she wreak revenge on all the male sex?

Pip

When you go to dine with Mr. Jaggers, look at his housekeeper

Wemmick

Did you think of walking down to Walworth?

Wemmick

Who's the Spider? [...] The blotchy, sprawly, sulky fellow

Mr. Jaggers

What larks

Joe

How do I know it, Handel?

Herbert

Have you anything to ask me?

Mr. Jaggers

I have never shown any weakness that I can charge myself with

Estella

I've been a sheep-farmer, stock-breeder, other trades besides, away in the new world

Magwitch

Oh, you enemy, you enemy!

Orlick

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

Mr. Jaggers

Love her, love her, love her!

Miss Havisham

So! The days have worn away, have they?

Miss Havisham

As I giv' you to understand just now, I'm famous for it. It was the money left me, and the gains of the first few year wot I sent home to Mr. Jaggers�all for you�when he first come arter you, agreeable to my letter.

Magwitch

Look'ee here, Pip. I'm your second father

Magwitch

In jail and out of jail, in jail and out of jail, in jail and out of jail. There, you got it. That's my life pretty much

Magwitch

Don't be afraid of my being a blessing to him,

Estella

...my guiding-star always is, 'Get hold of portable property'

Wemmick