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Great Expectations quotes

Charles Dickens

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“Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“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.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“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.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“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. But since my duty has not been incompatible with the admission of that remembrance, I have given it a place in my...” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“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.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“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.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“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.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“I'll tell you . . . what real love is. 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!” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“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.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“Love her, love her, love her! If she favors 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!” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“The Constables and the Bow Street men from London . . . did pretty much what I have heard and read of like authorities doing in other such cases. They took up several obviously wrong people, and they ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas,...” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. There may be black ingratitude in the thing, and the punishment may be retributive and well deserved; but that it is a miserable thing, I can testify.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“What is detestable in a pig is more detestable in a boy.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“She had admirers without end. No doubt my jealousy made an admirer of every one who went near her” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“a Englishman's ouse is his Castle, and castles must not be busted 'cept when done in war time.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“few people know what secrecy there is in the young under terror. No matter how unreasonable the terror, so that it be terror.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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