Quotations From Great Expectations.

People are put in the Hulks because they murder, and because they rob, and forge, and
do all sorts of
bad; and they always begin by asking questions. Now you get along to bed!"
Book 1 chapter 2
The terrors that had assailed me whenever Mrs. Joe had gone near the pantry, or out of the room, were
only to be equaled by the remorse with which my mind dwelt on what my hands hand done.
Book 1 chapter 4
Book 1, Chapter 5 Quotes
I thought what terrible good sauce for a dinner my fugitive friend on the marshes was. They had not
enjoyed themselves a quarter so much before the entertainment was brightened with the excitement he
furnished.
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.
"…lies is lies. Howsoever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies,
and work round to the same. Don't you tell no more of ‘em, Pip. That ain't the way to get out of being
common, old chap…If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it
through going crooked."
my young mind was in that disturbed and unthankful state that I thought long after I laid me down, how
common Estella would consider Joe, a mere blacksmith: how thick his boots, and how coarse his hands. I
thought how Joe and my sister were then sitting in the kitchen, and how Miss Havisham and Estella
never sat in a kitchen, but were far above the level of such common things
Book 1, Chapter 13 Quotesnever sat in a kitchen, but were far above the level of such common things.
I was truly wretched, and had a strong conviction on me that I should never like Joe's trade. I had liked it
once, but once was not now.
Miss Havisham and Estella and the strange house and the strange life appeared to have something to do
with everything that was picturesque.
…as Joe and Biddy became more at their cheerful ease again, I became quite gloomy. Dissatisfied with
my fortune, of course I could not be; but it is possible that I may have been, without quite knowing it,
dissatisfied with myself.
Oh, there are many kinds of pride," said Biddy, looking full at me and shaking her head; "Pride is not all
of one kind…[Joe] may be too proud to let any one take him out of a place that he is competent to fill,
and fills well and with respect."
We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness that I often wondered how I had
conceived the old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection that perhaps
the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.
"…now, when 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."
Pip Pirrip Quotes in Great Expectations
The Great Expectations quotes below are all either spoken by Pip Pirrip or refer to Pip Pirrip. For each
quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own
dot and icon, like this one:
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"People are put in the Hulks because they murder, and because they rob, and forge, and do all sorts of
Pip Pirrip Quotes in Great Expectations
The Great Expectations quotes below are all either spoken by Pip Pirrip or refer to Pip Pirrip. For each
quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own
dot and icon, like this one:
).
"People are put in the Hulks because they murder, and because they rob, and forge, and do all sorts of
I thought what terrible good sauce for a dinner my fugitive friend on the marshes was. They had not
enjoyed themselves a quarter so much before the entertainment was brightened with the excitement he
furnished.

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.
or now my repugnance to [Provis] had all melted away, and in the hunted wounded shackled creature
who held my hand in his, I only saw a man who had meant to be my benefactor, and who had felt
affectionately, gratefully, and generously towards me with great constancy through a series of years. I
only saw in him a much better man than I had been to Joe.

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