“But as she grew, and promised to be very beautiful, I gradually did worse, and with my praises, and with my jewels, and with my teachings, and with this figure of myself always before her, a warning to back and point my lessons, I stole her heart away, and put ice in its place.” ~ Great Expectations
“I must be taken as
“I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.” ~ Great Expectations
Long Hard Time
“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth. ” ~ Great Expectations
“But as to myself, my
“But as to myself, my guiding-star always is, ‘Get hold of portable property’.” ~ Great Expectations
Time shall show us. The
Time shall show us. The post of honour and the post of shame, the general’s station and the drummer’s, a peer’s statue in Westminster Abbey and a seaman’s hammock in the bosom of the deep, the mitre and the workhouse, the woolsack and the gallows, the throne and the guillotine—the travellers to all are on the great high road, but it has wonderful divergencies, and only Time shall show us whither each traveller is bound. ~ Little Dorrit
The changes of a fevered
The changes of a fevered room are slow and fluctuating; but the changes of the fevered world are rapid and irrevocable. ~ Little Dorrit
“Being practical people, we never
“Being practical people, we never allow anybody to scare the birds; and the birds, being practical people too, come about us in myriads.” ~ Little Dorrit
If he had been a
If he had been a man with strength of purpose to face those troubles and fight them, he might have broken the net that held him, or broken his heart; but being what he was, he languidly slipped into this smooth descent, and never more took one step upward. ~ Little Dorrit
None of us clearly know
None of us clearly know to whom or to what we are indebted in this wise, until some marked stop in the whirling wheel of life brings the right perception with it. It comes with sickness, it comes with sorrow, it comes with the loss of the dearly loved, it is one of the most frequent uses of adversity. ~ Little Dorrit
It was an instinctive testimony
It was an instinctive testimony to Little Dorrit’s worth and difference from all the rest, that the poor young fellow honoured and loved her for being simply what she was. ~ Little Dorrit
