He calls the knaves Jacks, this boy! The Circumlocution Office2021-10-26T20:16:33+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Class, Contempt, Humiliation| Read More
You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. The Circumlocution Office2021-10-22T20:23:22+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Love| Read More
What would it signify to me, being coarse and common, if nobody had told me so! The Circumlocution Office2021-10-22T20:24:40+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Class| Read More
She put the mug down on the stones of the yard, and gave me the bread and meat without looking at me, as insolently as if I were a dog in disgrace. The Circumlocution Office2022-05-11T19:56:46+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Class, Contempt, Dogs, Humiliation| Read More
The bellows seemed to roar for the fugitives. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-12T10:46:00+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Fear| Read More
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. The Circumlocution Office2021-10-22T20:28:26+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Emotions, Love| Read More
My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-07T09:23:01+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Life| Read More
I began fully to know how wrecked I was. The Circumlocution Office2022-03-16T16:37:19+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Emotions, Love| Read More
Keep still, you little devil, or I’ll cut your throat! The Circumlocution Office2022-05-23T21:53:55+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Fear, Menacing, Threats| Read More
We need never be ashamed of our tears. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-14T08:13:30+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Emotions| Read More
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. The Circumlocution Office2021-03-18T10:26:49+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Abandonment, Children, Humiliation, Injustice| Read More
While I was scared by the immensity of London, I think I might have had some faint doubts whether it was not rather ugly, crooked, narrow, and dirty. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-14T20:49:15+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Appearance (Places), London| Read More
I came into Smithfield; and the shameful place, being all asmear with filth and fat and blood and foam, seemed to stick to me. The Circumlocution Office2021-10-22T20:30:12+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: London, Smithfield| Read More
We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people made up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. The Circumlocution Office2019-04-14T20:12:27+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Class, Money| Read More
My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip. The Circumlocution Office2020-07-13T22:38:52+01:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Family| Read More
