The best time to live-up to a great expectation be only when everyone says give-up. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Having so much fun reading/annotating Great Expectations! said no one ever. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A book lay overturned on the floor beside the bed, its hard cover collecting dust. Great Expectations.” — Jaime Jo Wright Copy Share Image
She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“You ought to dare impossible things. These will be possible by ceaseless reliance on a higher power.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It is hard luck on a young fellow to have expensive tastes, great expectations, aristocratic connections but no actual money in his… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
You got what you asked for dont be mad it wasn't what you thought it was…Next time don't have such great expectations. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The contention came, after all, to this - the secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Until then, have great expectations. Keep believing you dreams will come true. And remember, when life throws you a pit... plant a… — Coleen Murtagh Paratore Copy Share Image
“If you expect to reach the goal of perfection, never look at the cup as being half empty, see it as being… — Barbara Hart Copy Share Image
Youre full of great expectations. Your own, and those imposed. Small failures and half successes. The epitome of mediocrity composed — Aly Johnson Copy Share Image
Great Expectations [book by Charles Dickens] has been described as "Dickens's harshest indictment of society." Which it is. After all, it's about… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Pocket was at home, and was in a little difficulty, on account of the baby's having been accommodated with a needle… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“...sapevo, con mio grande dolore, molto spesso, se non sempre, che l'amavo a dispetto della ragione, a dispetto di ogni promessa, a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Very few can overcome their immediate feelings of hurt and victimhood and channelize it in creative ways of self-transformation. Often such a… — Shaheen Akhter Suraiya Begum Hameeda Hossain Sultana Kamal Meghna Guhathakurta Meghna Guhathakurta Copy Share Image
“Psychiatrists say unrealistic expectations lead to depression, but why else are we alive if not to dream? Every expectation is unrealistic until… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
If new species arise very rapidly in small, peripherally isolated local populations, then the great expectation of insensibly graded fossil sequences is… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Almost none of them understood Great Expectations or David Copperfield, anyway. They were not only too young for the Dickensian language, they… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The public psychology of going into debt for gain passes through several more or less distinct phases: (a) the lure of big… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
“A period of transition to a new quality in all spheres of society's life is accompanied by painful phenomena. When we were… — Mikhail S. Gorbachev Copy Share Image
“Anyhow, high school is just…The. Worst.” “Funny that you became a high school teacher, then,” I say, and she laughs again. “Something… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
“How do you get through any of your classes?" Cath had hours of assigned reading, almost every single night. "Coping strategies." "Such… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“I recently discovered that a friend who was re-reading Bleak House had done no other Dickens apart from Barnaby Ridge. That's just… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us down again. Maybe nothing did work out right for her,… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
“The Montreux Palace Hotel was built in an age when it was thought that things would last. It is on the very… — James Salter Copy Share Image
![“Great Expectations [book by Charles Dickens] has been described as "Dickens's harshest indictment of society." Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.” quote by Felix Dennis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d11/felix-dennis-3862_dickens_great-expectations-book-by-charles-dicke_1499314.png)
