Great Expectations

Great Expectations Quotes

Modernization of Charles Dickens classic story finds the hapless Finn as a painter in New York pursuing his unrequited and haughty childhood love.

Finn: It's my heart, and its broken.
Finn: Estella?
Estella: Finn? Is that you?
Finn: Is that your little girl?
Estella: Yes. I had to bring her. I wanted to show her this place.
Finn: Have you been back often?
Estella: No.
Finn: Me either.
Estella: So... I hear all about you. You're doing great.
Finn: I'm doing okay.
Estella: Things have been... different for me. For a long time, I kept...
Finn: What?
Estella: I think about you. A lot lately.
Finn: I'm glad.
Estella: Can you ever forgive me?
Finn: Don't you know me at all?
Ms. Nora Digger Dinsmoor: She'll only break your heart, it's a fact. And even though I warn you, even though I guarantee you that the girl will only hurt you terribly, you'll still pursue her. Ain't love grand?
Finn: What's it like not to feel anything?
Estella: Let's say there was a little girl, and from the time she could understand, she was taught to fear... let's say she was taught to fear daylight. She was taught that it was her enemy, that it would hurt her. And then one sunny day, you ask her to go outside and play and she won't. You can't be angry at her can you?
Finn: I knew that little girl and I saw the light in her eyes, and no matter what you say or do, that's still what I see.
Estella: We are who we are. People don't change.
Finn: I did it! I did it! I am a wild success! I sold 'em all, all my paintings. You don't have to be embarrassed by me anymore. I'm rich! Isn't that what you wanted? Aren't we happy now? Don't you understand that everything I do, I do it for you? Anything that might be special in me, is you.
Prisoner: You bite your nails? Its a bad habit. People always tell you that the eyes are the windows to the soul. Bullshit its your hands, thats the sign of a gentleman.
Finn: That's a big cat! That's the biggest cat I've ever seen! What do you feed it?
Ms. Nora Digger Dinsmoor: Other cats.
Finn: I'm not going to tell the story the way it happened. I'm going to tell it the way I remember it.
Finn: The night all of my dreams came true, and like all happy endings,It was a tragedy, Of my device, for I succeeded. I had cut myself loose from Joe, from the past, from the gulf, from poverty I had invented myself. I'd done it cruelly, but I had done it. I was free!
Estella: We are who we are, people don't change.
Finn: Everything I have ever done, I've done for you.
Finn: Seven Years passed, I stopped going to Paradiso Perduto, I stopped painting. I put aside the fantasy and the wealthy, and the heavenly girl who did not want me. None of it would happen to me again. I'd seen through it. I elected to grow up.
Uncle Joe: Nothing harder than being given your chance. At least, that's what I hear.
Estella: I do love the way you dance.
[after sleeping with Finn]
Ms. Nora Digger Dinsmoor: [Watches young Finn and young Estella dance] Smile, Smile, Smile, Smile...
[to Finn]
Ms. Nora Digger Dinsmoor: Okay, don't smile.
Finn: if this isn't love, I don't think I can handle the real thing
Estella - Age 10: It's not poisoned.
Mrs. Joe: If that boy comes back 'ere with his 'ead blown to bits by a musket, don't look to me to put it together again!
Mr. Jaggers: Take nothing on its looks, take everything on evidence. There is no better rule.
[welcoming Pip to her decaying mansion]
Miss Havisham: Come nearer. Let me look at you. Come close. Look at me. You aren't afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since before you were born?
Mr. Jaggers: I have a pretty large experience of boys and you're a bad lot of fellows.
Magwitch: Keep still, you young devil, or I'll slit your throat!
Pip: [narrating] In trying to become a gentleman, I had succeeded in becoming a snob.
Joe Gargery: Pip! A young gentleman of great expectations.

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