Jaggers

Quotations related to the character of the shrewd lawyer Mr. Jaggers in the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations.

I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you’re a bad set of fellows.

The Circumlocution Office2022-10-12T21:03:16+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Children|

A burly man of an exceedingly dark complexion, with an exceedingly large head, and a corresponding large hand.

The Circumlocution Office2023-03-21T16:42:08+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Appearance (Person)|

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

The Circumlocution Office2022-10-20T09:47:11+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Appearance, Facts, Law, Truth|

Don’t commit yourself, and don’t commit any one. You understand—any one. Don’t tell me anything: I don’t want to know anything; I am not curious.

The Circumlocution Office2022-09-12T12:54:17+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Crime, Guilt, Law|

He washed his clients off, as if he were a surgeon or a dentist.

The Circumlocution Office2021-10-22T20:14:09+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Crime, Guilt, Hands, Law|

The magistrates shivered under a single bite of his finger. Thieves and thief-takers hung in dread rapture on his words, and shrank when a hair of his eyebrows turned in their direction.

The Circumlocution Office2022-10-23T14:20:52+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Crime, Fear, Law|