Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Quotes

• “That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected ...”
• “He was always so zealous and honorable in fulfilling his compact with me, that he made me zealous and honorable in fulfi...”
• “. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding so...”
• “Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our har...”
• “It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world,...”
• “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have ...”
• “They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instea...”
• “In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceiv...”
• “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement ...”
• “So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”
• “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.”
• “I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!”
• “He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner.”