Havisham Quotes

“Why d’you think she did it?”I told him I had no idea. He seemed disappointed that I shouldn’t know.“A broken heart,” I suggested.“Do people suffer so much?”“For love? Oh, I imagine so.”“To drown herself?”“Why does that astonish you? Dido threw herself on the flames.”“In legend.”“And real life’s different?” I asked.”

“Don’t we have to live a little first? And read later?”

“Experience can never be undone, or knowledge unlearned.”

“Some things belong to the past.”

“We were perfectly decorous together. It took the will of both of us. I trusted him with me, and myself with him.”

“I resolved to tell my guardian that I doubted Orlick being the right sort of man to fill a post of trust at Miss Havisham’s. ‘Why of course he is not the right sort of man, Pip,’ said my guardian, comfortably satisfied beforehand on the general head, ‘because the man who fills the post of trust never is the right sort of man.”

“Who am I, for God's sake, that I should be kind!”