Joe Gargery

Character in Great Expectations From: Great Expectations

Pip's kindhearted blacksmith brother-in-law and moral compass

63 quotes

"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
Wisdom
"Forgiveness is not easily given, but I offer it now."
"The measure of a person is not their fortune, but their character."
Wisdom
"I was a blacksmith before I was anything else."
Work
"Kindness is the only true gentility."
Kindness
"Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence."
Wisdom
"I wish you were the same Pip I knew as a boy."
Change
"You will always be a blacksmith's boy to some."
"Love and loyalty are the real riches of life."
Love
"A gentleman is made by his actions, not his birth."
Leadership
"Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence."
Wisdom
"You must give him time."
Patience
"The poor deserve our respect, not our contempt."
Justice
"We must be true to ourselves above all else."
Truth
"True friendship requires honesty, not flattery."
Friendship
"Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence."
Wisdom
"The finger of Providence was in this."
Faith
"Whatever comes, I shall face it with a stout heart."
Strength
"Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence."
Wisdom
"There is no understanding without love."
Love
"Gratitude is the measure of a man's character."
Gratitude
"I wish you every happiness in life"
Friendship
"Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence"
Wisdom
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see"
Kindness
"Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence."
Wisdom
"A man may travel the whole world over and find nothing that surpasses genuine kindness."
Kindness
"I have aspired to nothing beyond becoming a blacksmith."
Work
"There is a certain dignity in humble work."
Work
"The bonds of gratitude are strongest."
Gratitude
"You don't mind me, do you?"
Kindness