Great Expectations Quotes

I loved her against reason against promise against peace against hope against happiness against all discouragement that could be.

Great expectations quotes. It was much upon my mind particularly when i first saw him looking about for his file that i ought to tell joe the whole truth. Book 1 chapter 2 quotes people are put in the hulks because they murder and because they rob and forge and do all sorts of bad. Great expectations quotes showing 1 30 of 518. Great expectations quotes now i return to this young fellow.

Estella to the last hour of my life you cannot choose but remain part of my character part of the little good in me part of the evil. The fear of losing joes confidence tied up my tongue. Books by charles dickens. They had never troubled me before but they troubled me now as vulgar appendages.

I looked at him eagerly when he looked at me and slightly moved my hands. Great expectations i took the opportunity of being alone in the courtyard to look at my coarse hands and my common boots. All page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the dover publications edition of great expectations published in 2001. Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.

I wish it was only me that got put out pip. So throughout life our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we. Take a study break. My convict looked round him for the first time and saw me.

For the first time pip notices the difference in his hands and attire both of which reflect his lower social status. It would have been cruel of miss havisham horribly cruel to practice on the susceptibility of a poor boy and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. And the communication i have got to make is that he has great expectations take another glass of wine and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying ones glass as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on ones nose. Im dead afeerd of going wrong in the way of not doing whats right by a woman and id fur rather of the two go wrong the tother way and be a little ill conwenienced myself.

Yet i did not and for the reason that i mistrusted that if i did he would think me worse than i was. Now you get along to bed.