Great Expectations

Great Expectations quotes

Memorable lines from Great Expectations, word for word as they are lettered in the graphic novel. Page numbers refer to the graphic novel.

Key lines, in story order

“You bring me, tomorrow morning early, that file and them wittles.”
Page 4 · Magwitch coerces Pip to steal for him.
“I took some wittles, up at the village over yonder... A pie it was.”
Page 10 · Recapture of Magwitch; Magwitch shields Pip.
“Lies is lies, Pip... Don't you tell no more of 'em, Pip.”
Page 15 · Pip lies about Satis House, then confesses to Joe.
“I am instructed to communicate to him that he will come into a handsome property.”
Page 23 · Jaggers delivers the life-changing news.
“Lord bless me, you're the pale young gentleman!”
Page 28 · Pip reunites with Herbert Pocket.
“Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together.”
Page 33 · Joe's visit and Pip's ashamed snobbery.
“Do you want me to deceive and entrap you, Pip?”
Page 42 · Bentley Drummle courts Estella.
“I was sent for life. It's death to come back.”
Page 47 · The lethal danger to Magwitch is revealed.
“If you knew the misery I have suffered since! If you knew what it is to be a ghost in one's own house!”
Page 56 · Miss Havisham's deep remorse.
“I will never stir from your side... while there is a breath left in your body.”
Page 67 · Pip stands loyally by Magwitch in prison.
“Which dear old Pip, old chap, you're looking a whole world better!”
Page 71 · Pip awakens to Joe's loving care.
“I saw no shadow of another parting from her.”
Page 82 · Pip and Estella walk into the future together.

“I will never forget you, Joe. Nor you, Biddy.”
Pip, page 25
“You must know, Pip, that I have no heart.”
Estella, page 36
“If you think as money can make up to me for the loss of the boy, you don't know Joe Gargery!”
Joe Gargery, page 24
“Yes, Pip, dear boy, I've made a gentleman on you! It's me wot done it!”
Abel Magwitch, page 45
“Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces—love her, love her, love her!”
Miss Havisham, page 35
“We are so harmonious, and you have been a blacksmith! Would you mind if I call you Handel?”
Herbert Pocket, page 29
“I have business here with a blacksmith named Joe Gargery, and an apprentice named Pip.”
Mr. Jaggers, page 23
“Welcome to my Castle, Mr. Pip! Built it all with my own hands!”
John Wemmick, page 31
“If it is to spite her, it is better not to care; and if it is to win her, she is not worth the winning.”
Biddy, page 22
“Where in the world have you been, you young monkey?”
Mrs. Joe Gargery, page 5
“Stand up straight, Pip! Mind your manners before quality!”
Uncle Pumblechook, page 12
“You get out of my way, boy, or I'll give you a taste of the hot iron.”
Dolge Orlick, page 19
“You have a returned transport there... That's the man!”
Compeyson, page 65
“Out of my way, blacksmith. The lady has promised me the next dance.”
Bentley Drummle, page 42

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