115 Quotes About Great-expectations

Brag is good dog, holdfast is better!

Bear in mind then, that Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.

He was a prosperous old bachelor, and his open window looked into a prosperous little garden and orchard, and there was a prosperous iron safe let into the wall at the side of his fireplace, and I did not doubt that heaps of his prosperity were put away in it in bags.

The contention came, after all, to this - the secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella's reproach.

Yet he would smoke his pipe at the Battery with a far more sagacious air then anywhere else - even with a learned air - as if he considered himself to be advancing immensely. Dear fellow, I hope he did.

...sapevo, con mio grande dolore, molto spesso, se non sempre, che l'amavo a dispetto della ragione, a dispetto di ogni promessa, a dispetto della mia pace, a dispetto della speranza, a dispetto della felicità, a dispetto di ogni possibile scoraggiamento. Una volta per tutte: non l'amavo di meno perché lo sapevo, e il fatto che lo sapessi non valeva a frenarmi...

Great expectations are better than a poor possession.

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.