Great Expectations Quotes
Works by Charles Dickens, Victorian novels, Gothic novels
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“My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.”
“Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.”
“Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together...”
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”
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“Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people we most despise.”
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“Free eBook of: Great Expectations at Project Gutenberg.”
“I had been to see Macbeth at the theatre a night or two before and she reminded me of the faces rising out of the witches' cauldron.”
“David Parker's article on the London Fictions site about the London of Great Expectations”
“1953 Theatre Guild on the Air radio adaptation at the Internet Archive”
“Great Expectations – PDF scans of the entire novel as it originally appeared in All the Year Round”
“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than the dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by religion.”
“All the truth of my position came flashing on me; and its disappointments, dangers, disgraces, consequences of all kinds, rushed in in such a multitude that I was borne down by them and had to struggle for every breath I drew.”
“In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.”
“Compeyson's business was the swindling, hand writing forging, stolen bank-note passing, and such-like. All sorts of traps as Compeyson could set with his head, and keep his own legs out of and get the profits from and let another man in for, was Compeyson's business. He'd no more heart than a iron file he was as cold as death, and he had the head of the Devil afore mentioned.”