Quotes About Miss Havisham

#1. 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

#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. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school. In kindergarten, they sent me home because I couldn't do finger painting in my dress.

Allegra Versace

#8. Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.

Groucho Marx

#9. What are you waiting for, you little mortal! You have no time! Get up and get out and do something to protect your miraculous existence!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. To be slapped with a shoe is a dirty insult in the Muslim world.

Richard Engel

#11. I remember being married to John Barry and trying to be the best wife in the world.

Jane Birkin

#12. The noble-minded worry about their lack of ability, not about people's failure to recognize their ability.

Confucius

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

Charles Dickens

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

Charles Dickens

#15. Nothing ever tasted better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to than more of the same.

Hugh Hood

#16. I like to carry around extremely pretentious books, and I don't know if I can read them, but if I hold them near me, it imbues me with a sense of powerful intelligence.

Sam Amidon

#17. Contacting and living from our True Self is the central task of personal growth.

Charles L. Whitfield

#18. I wouldn't yell 'fire' at that slimeball if his ass was in flames.

Victoria Dahl

#19. When Christians unto carnal men give ear, Out of their way they go, and pay for 't dear; For Master Worldly Wiseman can but shew A saint the way to bondage and to woe.

John Bunyan

#20. The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.

Sue Grafton

#21. Had she been in town, the two of them would have spent most of the day together, and she didn't want that. Then again, deep down, it was exactly what she wanted, leaving her more confused that she'd been in years.

Nicholas Sparks