Mr Pip Quotes

#1. I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

Charles Dickens

#2. Don't be a hero for me."
Only for you, Rosie thought but didn't say it.

Lara Morgan

#3. Right then," Campbell began, his tone so civil it was offensive. "May I have your name for the record, Miss ... ?"
"Eliza Braun," Eliza sneered. "Here, I'll spell it for you
B-U-G-G-E-R-O-F-F.

Tee Morris

#4. And a cool four thousand, Pip!
I never discovered from whom Joe derived the conventional temperature of the four thousand pounds, but it appeared to make the sum of money more to him, and he had a manifest relish in insisting on its being cool.

Charles Dickens

#5. Above the forest of the parakeets,
A parakeet of parakeets prevails,
A pip of life amid a mort of tails.

Wallace Stevens

#6. Dona Crista laughed a bit. "Oh, Pip, I'd be glad for you to try. But do believe me, my dear friend, touching her heart is like bathing in ice."
I imagine. I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire.

Orson Scott Card

#7. I look at Colin Meads and see a great big sheep farmer who carried the ball in his hands as though it was an orange pip.

Bill McLaren

#8. Writing that sort of [songs like "Let is Roll"]made me try to almost sort of ingrain it in my own head every time I sing it live as well. It's like therapy. It's like "Move on, Pip! Come on. You can do this! You can do this."

Ladyhawke

#9. It's and odd thing, but however much an oficionado one may be of mysteries in book form, when they pop up in real life they seldom fail to give one the pip.

P.G. Wodehouse

#10. I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.

David Nicholls

#11. I bought the Heartbreak Hotel, on my own with no investors. Closed it down and opened the Fuck You, Get Over It bed and breakfast.

Scroobius Pip

#12. Pip, dear old chap. life is made of ever many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man's a blacksmith and one's a whitesmith, one's a goldsmith, and one's a coppersmith. Diwisions among such must come, and must be met as they come.

Charles Dickens

#13. For my little dog, Pip, who joined our family during the writing of
this story. Thanks for rescuing me.

Jackie Braun

#14. You see a mousetrap; I see free cheese and a fucking challenge!

Scroobius Pip

#15. Pamela realizes for the first time in her life that she hadn't made the wrong choice at all. Nor had she made the right choice. She had simply made a choice. And somewhere along the way, she had lost the courage to live by it.

Pip Karmel

#16. Such pip-squeaks as Nixon and McCarthy are trying to get us so frightened of Communism that we'll be afraid to turn out the lights at night.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

#17. Some stories will help you find happiness and truth. Some stories teach you not to make the same mistakes twice. These ones offer instructions.

Lloyd Jones

#18. The mention of money did intrigue him, since he did prefer wine, women, and song to beer, whores, and accordion music.

Pip Ballantine

#19. I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test.

Ian Botham

#20. I have the biggest sweet tooth, and just recently a doughnut shop in Portland called Pip's Original introduced a doughnut inspired by me called the 'Dirty Wu.' It is a cinnamon-sugar doughnut with sea salt, drizzled with honey and Nutella.

Reggie Lee

#21. In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.

Charles Dickens

#22. And Pip wanted to do good, if only for lack of better ambitions.

Jonathan Franzen

#23. My petal.
Westminster's toy had tea issues. Thank Biffy and Lyall. Toodle pip.
A.

Gail Carriger

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

Charles Dickens

#25. Not only had Mr. Butcavage's questions been reasonable, he also had an unfortunate name and no friends in his neighborhood. He was probably a lonely person like her mother, and Pip felt helplessly compassionate toward anyone who reminded her of her mother.

Jonathan Franzen

#26. We're beating a lot of poor teams. So what? We won a lot of games last year, too. Will Horace and Bill still be playing at this level in the playoffs ... Can Pip keep it up?

Michael Jordan

#27. The other day, a doughnut shop in Portland called Pip's Originals tweeted me telling me that they named a doughnut after me called the 'Dirty Wu.' It is a cinnamon sugar doughnut drizzled with honey and Nutella. It was so good. I just won the Oscar in the sci-fi world.

Reggie Lee

#28. Pip wondered what the secret was of being different in a way that attracted people, as opposed to her own way.

Jonathan Franzen

#29. You scared of that pip-squeak? Dude, you got a lot to learn. Freakin' Newbies.

James Dashner

#30. My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

Charles Dickens

#31. A whale would sell for thirty times what you would, Pip, in Alabama.

Herman Melville

#32. George was captivated by her. She was a pip, as George's father might have said. But what he saw quickly, what he was sure Noah was oblivious to, Ellie was very like Noah's late wife. She was unique, confident, funny and impossibly positive. Noah

Robyn Carr

#33. I'm pretty sure my dog, Pip, gets lonely when there is no one to be with him. But we humans can end up with a gnawing worry about that separation possibly becoming a permanent condition.

Thomas L. Dumm

#34. Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry.

Scroobius Pip