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I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Charles Dickens
Suffering Pain, Broken, Expectations
Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.525

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

Charles Dickens
Wisdom, Expectations, Looks
Great Expectations ch. 40 (1861)

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Charles Dickens
Children, Parenting, Expectations
Great Expectations ch. 8 (1861)

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.

Charles Dickens
Taken, Two, Expectations
Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.255, The Planet

Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

Charles Dickens
Expectations, Ugly, Helping
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7354, Delphi Classics

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Charles Dickens
Life, Saying Goodbye, Expectations
Charles Dickens (2012). “A Great Expectations in Plain and Simple English (Includes Study Guide, Complete Unabridged Book, Historical Context, Biography”, p.568, BookCaps Study Guides

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

Charles Dickens
Romantic Love, Expectations, Promise
1860-1 Great Expectations, ch.29.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

Charles Dickens
Self, Expectations, Earth
Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.254

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

Charles Dickens
People, Expectations, Words Of Wisdom
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7278, Delphi Classics

Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

Charles Dickens
Fashion, Clothes, Expectations
1860-1 Great Expectations, ch.19.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Expectations, Morality
Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.61

. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . .

Charles Dickens
Healing, Order, Expectations
Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7428, Delphi Classics

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

Charles Dickens
Home, Expectations, Words Of Wisdom
'Great Expectations' (1861) ch. 14

There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one.

Charles Dickens
Gay, Skeletons, Expectations
Charles Dickens (1983). “Great Expectations”

There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more. Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly-entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.

Charles Dickens
Way In Life, Expectations, Romance
Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.411, Penguin

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

Charles Dickens
Expectations, Too Late, World
Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.132, The Planet

No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Charles Dickens
Expectations, Woods, Grain
Charles Dickens (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.248

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 dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.

Charles Dickens
Funny, Humorous, Expectations
1860-1 Pip. Great Expectations, ch.4.

it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Charles Dickens
Heart, Men, Expectations
Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.148, The Planet

We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart.

Charles Dickens
Heart, Thinking, Expectations
Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.70

Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.

Charles Dickens
Inspirational, Communication, Expectations
Great Expectations ch. 18 (1861)

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

Charles Dickens
Love, Expectations, Mind
Charles Dickens (2012). “Great Expectations Thrift Study Edition”, p.236, Courier Corporation

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