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Great Expectations quotes
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- 1"He was a mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered, easy-going, foolish, dear fellow - a sort of Hercules in strength, and also in weakness"9
- 2"I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes"55
- 3"I had known, from the time when I could speak, that my sister, in her capricious and violent coercion, was unjust to me"60
- 4"Miss Havisham and Estella and the strange house and the strange life appeared to have something to do with everything that was picturesque"103
- 5'Do you want to be a gentleman to spite her or to gain her over"120
- 6"The strange gentleman, with an air of authority not to be disputed, and with a manner expressive of knowing something secret about every one of us that would effectually do for each individual if he chose to conceal it"127
- 7"I drew away from the window, and sat down in my one chair by the beside, feeling it very sorrowful and strange that this first night of my right fortunes should be the loneliest i had ever known"136
- 8"The girl's hard and naughty and capricious to the last degree, and has been brought up by Miss Havisham to wreak revenge on all the male sex"162
- 9"There was something wonderfully hopeful about his general air, and something that at the same time whispered to me that he would never be successful or rich"163
- 10"Well, you'll see a wild beast tamed"186
- 11"By degrees, Wemmick got dryer and harder as we went along, and his mouth tightened into a post-office again"193
- 12"Her reverting to this tone, as if our association was forced upon us and we were mere puppets, gave me pain; but everything in our intercourse did give me pain"246
- 13"if they disclosed to me as I suspect they did, that I should not come back, and that giddy was quite right, all I can say is - they were quite right too"262
- 14"So in my case; all the work, near and afar, that tended to the end, had been accomplished, and in an instant the blow was struck, and the roof of my stronghold dropped upon me"287
- 15"Yes, Pip, my dear by, I've made a gentleman on you"293
- 16"Nothing was needed but this; the wretched man, after loading me with his wretched gold and silver chains for years, had risked his life to come to me, and I held it there in my keeping!"296
- 17"I am as unhappy as you can ever have meant me to be"327
- 18"Who am I . . . who am I, for God's sake, that I should be kind?"328
- 19"But in a fatal moment, yielding to those propensities and passions, the indulgence of which had so long rendered him a scourge to society, he had quitted his haven of rest and repentance, and had come back to the country where he was proscribed"418
- 20"O dear old Pip, old chap, God knows I forgive you, if I have anything lto forgive!"455
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- Flashcards on Great Expectations quotes, created by Gus Bambridge-Sutton on 10/05/2016.
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