Great Expectations: Key Quotations

Below is a list of all of the quotations we have covered organised by character and theme:

Social Class and Ambition

Pip (Philip Pirrip):

1. "I wished Joe had been more genteelly brought up, and then I should have been too." Estella:
2. "I have no heart."

Miss Havisham: 3. "Love her, love her, love her!"

Abel Magwitch: 4. "I've made a gentleman on you!"

Jaggers: 5. "Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence."

Love and Relationships

Pip (Philip Pirrip):

2. "I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be." Estella**:**
3. "You must know... that I have no softness, there is no sentiment in my heart."

Jane Bennet: 3. "I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!"

Miss Havisham: 4. "I am what you have made me."

Herbert Pocket: 5. "You are part of my existence, part of myself."

Friendship and Loyalty

Joe Gargery:

3. "Ever the best of friends; ain't us, Pip?" Abel Magwitch:
4. "I'm your second father. You're my son—more to me nor any son."

Herbert Pocket: 3. "The only independent one among us has come back to us today, and here he sits!"

Biddy: 4. "You must marry... I must be there to help."