“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
-Great Expectations quotes Charles Dickens
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”
-Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”
-Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
-Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”
-Great Expectations quotes, Charles Dickens
“You are in every line I have ever read.”
-Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
“Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.”
-Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
“So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.”
-Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
“I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”
-Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.”
-Great Expectations quotes, Charles Dickens
“I stole her heart away and put ice in its place.”
-Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
“We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.”
-Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.”
-Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
“Life is made of so many partings welded together.”
-Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
“There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.”
-Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
“I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.
-Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
“Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy.”
-Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
“Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.”
-Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
“Take the pencil and write under my name, ‘I forgive her.”
-Great Expectations quotes, Charles Dickens
“Live well and die happy.”
-Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
“I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly – and that is the sharpest crying of all.”
-Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
“Why don’t you cry again, you little wretch?
-Because I’ll never cry for you again.”
-Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
“It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.”
-Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
“Spring is the time of the year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.”
-Great Expectations quotes, Charles Dickens
“Then I’m sorry to say, I’ve eat your pie.”
-Great Expectations, Charles Dickens