Great Expectations Quotes With Page Numbers. it is the 13th novel written by Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial in Dickens’s periodical, All the Year Round.
"Great Expectations Book" is filled with powerful and memorable quotes that explore themes of class, ambition, love, and self-discovery, Here are a few of my favorites Quotes.
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Great Expectations Quotes
- “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
- “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.”
- “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!”
- “We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
- “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.”
- “The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”
- “You are in every line I have ever read.”
- “Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.”
- “I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
- “Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”
- “Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.”
- “Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”
- “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.”
- “So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.”
- “I am what you designed me to be.I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt”
- “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.”
- “I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!”
- “In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.”
- “Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.”
- “Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?”
- “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.”
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Great Expectations Quotes With Page Numbers
- “Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.” Page 14.
- “I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief.” Page 16.
- “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.” Page 41.
- “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.” Page 50.
- “We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart.” Page 50.
- “So new to him,” she muttered, “so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!…” Page 59.
- “Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.” Page 60.
- “In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.” Page 63.
- “Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.” Page 72.
- “Break their hearts my pride and hope, break their hearts and have no mercy.” Page 95.
- “She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.” Page 125.
- “We need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth.” Page 160.
- “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.” Page 160.
- “No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.” Page 181.
- “So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.” Page 218.
- “All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.” Page 225.
- “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” Page 232.
- “Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” Page 232.
- “And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, and knowing that I never was happy with her, but always miserable.” Page 271.
- “I never had one hour’s happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.” Page 301.
- “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.” Page 306.
- “Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.” Page 336.
- “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.” Page 434.
- “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.” Page 484.
- “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.” Page 484.
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