Great Expectations

Book · 8 characters · 814 quotes · 1861

Quotes from Great Expectations

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"It may be that you have changed since you began."
Estella Change
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"I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."
Pip Perseverance
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"What is the reason that you are unwilling to come to a settlement?"
Miss Havisham Truth
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"Cowards are the greatest talkers."
Herbert Pocket Courage
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"The unqualified truth is that when you fall in love, it is a catastrophic thing."
Pip Love
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"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and I have been taught by it."
Pip Wisdom
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"It is a great thing to have a great man's love."
Estella Love
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"At last I understand what it means to live."
Pip Wisdom
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"Your debt to me is paid in full by your virtue."
Magwitch
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"I felt myself becoming someone I did not recognize."
Pip
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"Do you think I can make amends now?"
Miss Havisham
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"I have learned that wealth cannot buy happiness."
Pip Wisdom
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"The truth had finally been revealed to me."
Pip Truth
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"I am not capable of being what you wish me to be."
Estella
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"I had come to understand the value of true friendship."
Pip Friendship
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"I saw in her a reflection of myself."
Pip
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"Forgiveness is not easily given, but I offer it now."
Joe Gargery
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"I have no heart to deny you anything."
Pip Love
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"The world was not made for such as me."
Magwitch
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"I understand you quite well. You have always been a gentleman."
Estella
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"In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right."
Pip Courage
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"I was filled with an intense desire to obtain Great Expectations."
Pip Dreams
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"I owe everything to you."
Pip Gratitude
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"Do not let any relic of my past obtrude itself upon you."
Miss Havisham
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"I had always thought what a fool I was to be expected to love."
Estella Love
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"There was something in her that I could not quite understand."
Pip
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"My education had not prepared me for such a discovery."
Pip Education
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"I felt a burning shame at my own conduct."
Pip
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"The smallest speck of ambition might not be entirely misplaced."
Pip
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"I have had much to contend with."
Miss Havisham Perseverance