Dickens Great Expectations Quotes

#1. Bear in mind then, that Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.

Charles Dickens

#2. So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Charles Dickens

#3. I should not have minded that, if they would only have left me alone. But they wouldn't leave me alone. They seemed to think the opportunity lost, if they failed to point the conversation at me, every now and then, and stick the point into me.

Charles Dickens

#4. The possessor of such great expectations, - farewell, monotonous acquaintances of my childhood, henceforth I was for London and greatness;

Charles Dickens

#5. The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

#6. Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.

Charles Dickens

#7. This is also an execellent time to ask this question: Did I get lazy and go for a quick rhyme?

Ann Reed

#8. My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.

Charles Dickens

#9. A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

Melody Carlson

#10. I guess to be an entrepreneur you have to have a large ego, enormous pride and an ability to inspire others to follow your lead,

Ray Kroc

#11. He was a prosperous old bachelor, and his open window looked into a prosperous little garden and orchard, and there was a prosperous iron safe let into the wall at the side of his fireplace, and I did not doubt that heaps of his prosperity were put away in it in bags.

Charles Dickens

#12. Wishes left on your lips
The mark of their wings.
Regrets fly kites in your eyes.

Carl Sandburg

#13. I'm totally obsessed with Dickens, and 'Great Expectations' was one of the first book's I read when I was still in school in Porthcawl.

Paul Rhys

#14. She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.

Charles Dickens

#15. Yet he would smoke his pipe at the Battery with a far more sagacious air then anywhere else - even with a learned air - as if he considered himself to be advancing immensely. Dear fellow, I hope he did.

Charles Dickens

#16. Would it be weakness to return my love?

Charles Dickens

#17. It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge.

Philip Roth

#18. 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.

Charles Dickens

#19. I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella's reproach.

Charles Dickens

#20. 'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.

Felix Dennis

#21. So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us! ...

Charles Dickens

#22. GREAT EXPECTATIONS [1867 Edition] by Charles Dickens [Project Gutenberg Editor's Note: There is also another version of this work etext98/grexp10.txt scanned from a different edition]

Anonymous

#23. Brag is good dog, holdfast is better!

Charles Dickens

#24. On the Rampage, Pip, and off the Rampage, Pip - such is Life!

Charles Dickens

#25. A man would die tonight of lying out on the marshes, I thought. And then 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 pitty in all the glittering multitude.

Charles Dickens

#26. Surprisingly, it was not an American but a British company that opened an amusement park in 2007 called Dickens World, located in the English county of Kent, complete with an Ebenezer Scrooge Haunted House, a Great Expectations Boat Ride and the as-advertised 'costumed Dickensian characters.'

Matthew Pearl

#27. Here my sister, after a fit of clappings and screamings, beat her hands upon her bosom and upon her knees, and threw her cap off, and pulled her hair down - which were the last stages on her road to frenzy. Being by this time a perfect fury and a complete success, she made a dash to the door

Charles Dickens