Quotes on Great Expectations

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

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

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.

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