The best Quotes from Great Expectations

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before.

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

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.

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

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.

Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

"Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change."

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

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

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

Mr. Lorry knew Miss Pross to be very jealous, but he also knew her by this time to be, beneath the service of her eccentricity, one of those unselfish creatures—found only among women—who will, for pure love and admiration, bind themselves willing slaves, to youth when they have lost it, to beauty that they never had, to accomplishments that they were never fortunate enough to gain, to bright hopes that never shone upon their own sombre lives.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused.

Please, sir, I want some more.

The world is full of magic. Small things become big. Winter turns to spring. One thing always changes into another.

Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime. For example, you're walking along minding your own business, you're looking neither to the left, nor to the right, when all of the sudden, you run smack into a pretty face. You begin to get weak in the knees, your head's in a whirl! And then you feel light as feather, and before you know it you're walking on air! And then you know what? You're knocked for a loop! And you completely lose your head!

Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime.

I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone. I choose a mortal life.

I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair.
I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare.
I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind.
I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme.
I hate it, I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie.
I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry.
I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call.
But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you.
Not even close,
not even a little bit,
not even at all!

It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears!

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

He, who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He, who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Sometimes, the questions are complicated – and the answers are simple.

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world. But you do have some say in who hurts you.

You know what they say about hope. It breeds eternal misery.

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Hey March, let's go out together in the next thirty days!

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.

Christmas? Shut up!