Great Expectations Quotes

“He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

topic:hiding

“Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

topic:love thought

“Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

topic:love reason

“I'll tell you . . . what real love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter—as I did!”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

topic:love

“Love her, love her, love her! If she favors you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces,—and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper,—love her, love her, love her!”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

topic:love

“suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

topic:change suffering teaching

“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth. But since my duty has not been incompatible with the admission of that remembrance, I have given it a place in my...”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

topic:memory worth

“The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

topic:experience success failure

“It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

topic:honesty goodness

“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

topic:appearance

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