Great Expectations

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

'I am to blame for my unhappiness

I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuading arguments of my best friends.

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

Home had never been a very pleasant place to me,

You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me."

You'll be one-and-twenty before you know where you are, and then perhaps you'll get some further enlightenment. At all events, you'll be nearer getting it, for it must come at last."

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

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

Conscience is a dreadful thing when it accuses man or boy; but when, in the case of a boy, that secret burden co-operates with another secret burden down the leg of his trousers, it is (as I can testify) a great punishment.