Havisham's Quotes

#1. Within a quarter of an hour we came to Miss Havisham's house, which was of old brick, and dismal, and had a great many iron bars to it. Some of the windows had been walled up; of those that remained, all the lower were rustily barred. There was a courtyard in front, and that was barred;

Charles Dickens

#2. I was very glad afterwards to have had the interview; for, in her face and in her voice, and in her touch, she gave me the assurance, that suffering had been stronger than Miss Havisham's teaching, and had given her a heart to understand what my heart used to be.

Charles Dickens

#3. She sighs, and then gives me this look. It's new and I don't like it. Sort of, Two roads diverged in a wood, mine is normal, but I hope you can be happy for me even though you are Miss Havisham.

Anna Breslaw

#4. All got really plastered after that. Was completely fantastic evening. As Tom said, if Miss Havisham had had some jolly flatmates to take the piss out of her she would never have stayed so long in her wedding dress.

Helen Fielding

#5. The language in a comic book or a graphic novel and the cinematographic language are really not the same language. They are false brother and sister. It's not at all the same.

Marjane Satrapi

#6. I'm not just a face, or a body. I'm a Havisham.

Ronald Frame

#7. Who am I, for God's sake, that I should be kind!

Charles Dickens

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

Charles Dickens

#9. Nothing, and Mr. Havisham kept her from suspecting

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#10. Who there, Tobias," says the man to my left. "Werent' you raised a Stiff? I thought the most you peole did was graze hands or something." "Then how do you explain all the Abnegation children?" Tobias raises his eyebrows. "They're brought into being by sheer force of will,

Veronica Roth

#11. The soil of a man's heart is stonier, Louis. A man grows what he can, and he tends it. 'Cause what you buy, is what you own. And what you own ... always comes home to you.

Stephen King

#12. Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

Kenneth Grahame

#13. Look at me,' said Miss Havisham. 'You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?

Charles Dickens

#14. It was as if Tutankhamen or Miss Havisham had wandered into the pub one night and started bitching about the head on the pints.

Tana French

#15. Rotten luck," said Falstaff as I walked past. "There were the remains of a fine woman about Havisham.

Jasper Fforde

#16. Margaux was older and wiser now and knew the waves couldn't fix what was wrong in her life, but at least they might give her some temporary respite.

Shelley Noble

#17. You nearly killed eight people!" I managed to gasp out loud.
"My count was closer to twelve," returned Havisham as she opened the door. "And anyhow, you can't nearly kill someone. Either they are dead or they are not.

Jasper Fforde