Memorable Quotes from Bernard Miles
4 quotesConfession of a Fugitive's Theft
Abel Magwitch
I wish to say something respectin this escape. It may prevent some persons laying under suspicion alonger me.
Sergeant
What is it?
Abel Magwitch
I took some food from the blacksmith near the village over yonder. It was a dram of liquor and a pie.
Sergeant
You happened to have missed such an article as a pie, blacksmith?
Joe Gargery
Well, my wife did the very moment you came in.
Abel Magwitch
Oh, so you're the blacksmith, are you? Then I'm sorry to say, I... I've eat your pie.
Joe Gargery
Oh, you're welcome to it, as far as ever it were mine. We don't know what you've done, but we wouldn't have you starve to death for it, poor miserable fellow-creature, would us, Pip?
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A Toast to History and Identity
Jo de Vries
I give you a toast. Louis?
Jo de Vries
It has been our motto since the House of Orange drove out the Spaniards 300 years ago. "Je Maintiendrai.
Jo de Vries
It's nice to be a woman again, even for half an hour.
Geoff Hickman, Front Gunner in B for Bertie
What do they reckon that motto of yours means, then, ma'am?
Jo de Vries
We can take it.
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Friendship and Support in Difficult Times
Joe Gargery
I brought you home, dear old Pip, old chap.
Pip
Oh, Joe... you break my heart. Please don't be so good to me.
Joe Gargery
Now lookee here, old chap, ever the best of friends. You'll soon be well enough to go out again, and then, oh, what larks!
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A Young Gentleman of Great Expectations
Joe Gargery
Pip! A young gentleman of great expectations.
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