Great Expectations

Book · 8 characters · 814 quotes · 1861

Quotes from Great Expectations

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"I began to have second thoughts about the whole affair"
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"I never had the least objection to your prosperity"
Joe Gargery
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"It seemed as if the whole world was conspiring against me"
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"I have not forgotten a single circumstance"
Pip
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"What is a convict but a shadow of himself?"
Magwitch
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"I felt as if my heart were full to bursting"
Pip
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"The evening had not advanced far before I repented"
Pip
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"I have often thought of you since"
Joe Gargery
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"There cannot be a greater difference between any two beings"
Estella
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"I have never been quite certain since"
Pip
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"Herbert had told me this was the moment"
Pip Friendship
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"I shall live to be very poor"
Pip Money
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"A convict could not have looked weaker"
Pip
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"I am what you have made me"
Estella
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"We trade in feelings here"
Estella
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"I felt the check as acutely as anyone could have felt it"
Pip
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"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives"
Magwitch Life
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"I have sometimes thought of her in the night"
Pip
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"My sister's bringing up had made me sensitive"
Pip
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"I have not been false to you"
Joe Gargery
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"She gave me her hand without hesitation"
Pip
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"I have a reason for wanting to be at once what I cannot yet be"
Pip
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"I will do nothing by halves"
Pip
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"My father's establishment is not by any means splendid"
Herbert Pocket
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"You don't mind me, do you?"
Joe Gargery Kindness
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"I have forgotten what it is to have been at rest"
Miss Havisham Peace
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"Great Expectations indeed"
Pip
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"The world is not kind, and does not care"
Estella Truth
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"There have been sorrow enough in this family already"
Miss Havisham Family
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"I wish you could invest yourself with more pleasantness"
Estella Relationships