Key quotations — Great Expectations — AQA GCSE English Literature 8702
AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
Key quotations
Key quotations
What you need to know
The essential quotations from Great Expectations, grouped by character and by theme, each with what it means and how to analyse it.
A table of 30 to 40 key quotations by character and theme, each with its speaker, place and a one-line note, for testing yourself.
Including 'the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip', 'And what coarse hands he has! And what thick boots!', 'It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home', 'no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner', 'Love her, love her, love her!', 'I am what you have made me', 'I've made a gentleman on you!', 'You are part of my existence, part of myself', 'What have I done! What have I done!', 'I only saw in him a much better man than I had been to Joe', 'O Lord, be merciful to him a sinner!' and 'I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape'.
