Great Expectations Quotes

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

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

topic:appearance

“In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“few people know what secrecy there is in the young under terror. No matter how unreasonable the terror, so that it be terror.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

topic:sorrow

“I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

topic:cowardice right wrong

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

topic:sun

“It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. There may be black ingratitude in the thing, and the punishment may be retributive and well deserved; but that it is a miserable thing, I can testify.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

topic:misery home

“Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

topic:lie

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