Morality and ethics

Quote

Character

Chapter

“I got so smartingly touched up by these moral goads.”

Pip

4

“I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality,”

Pip

4

“‘Trouble?’ echoed my sister; ‘trouble?’ And then entered on a fearful catalogue of all the illnesses I had been guilty of, and all the acts of sleeplessness I had committed, and all the high places I had tumbled from, and all the low places I had tumbled into, and all the injuries I had done myself, and all the times she had wished me in my grave, and I had contumaciously refused to go there.”

Pip

4

“I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure”

Estella

38

“‘I want,’ she said, ‘to pursue that subject you mentioned to me when you were last here, and to show you that I am not all stone. But perhaps you can never believe, now, that there is anything human in my heart?’”

Miss Havisham

49

“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.”

Pip

59