Valerie Hobson Quotes

Great Expectations

Judgment and Silence Among Friends

Estella He calls the knaves jacks, this boy! And what coarse hands he has! You stupid, clumsy labouring boy!

Miss Havisham She says many hard things of you, but you say nothing of her. What do you think of her?

Pip I don't like to say.

Miss Havisham Tell me... in my ear.

Pip I think she is very proud.

Miss Havisham Anything else?

Pip I think she is very pretty.

Miss Havisham Anything else?

Pip I think she is very insulting.

Miss Havisham Anything else?

Pip I think I should like to go home now.

Miss Havisham And never see her again, though she is so pretty?

Pip I'm not sure that I wouldn't like to see her again, but I think I'd like to go home now.

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Great Expectations

Pip's Reflection on His Arrival at Satis House

Pip When you first caused me to be brought here, Miss Havisham, I suppose I came here as any other chance boy might have, as a kind of servant, to gratify a want or a whim, and to be paid for it.

Miss Havisham Aye, Pip, you did.

Pip And that Mr Jaggers was...

Miss Havisham Mr Jaggers had nothing to do with it. His being my lawyer and the lawyer of your patron was a coincidence. He holds the same relation towards numbers of people.

Pip But when I fell into the mistake I have so long remained in, at least you led me on.

Miss Havisham Yes. I let you go on.

Pip Was that kind?

Miss Havisham Who am I, for heaven's sake, that I should be kind! Well, well, well! What else?

Pip Estella, I should have said this sooner but for my long mistake, which led me to believe that Miss Havisham meant us for one another. When I felt I couldn't tell you of my feelings while you were not free to choose for yourself. But now I have to go away and I must say it before I go. I love you, Estella. I've loved you ever since I first saw you in this house.

Estella Pip, I've tried to warn you not to love me, but you thought I didn't mean it.

Pip Isn't it true that Bentley Drummle is in town here and pursuing you?

Estella Quite true.

Pip That you encourage him, and ride out with him, and that he dines with you this very day.

Estella Quite true.

Pip How can you fling yourself at such a man?

Estella Should I rather fling myself at you, Pip, who would sense at once that I bring nothing to you?

Pip But you cannot love him, Estella!

Estella What have I always told you? Do you still think in spite of it that I don't mean what I say?

Pip Estella, … you … you would never marry him?

Estella Why not tell you the truth? I am going to be married to him. … Come, Pip. Don't be afraid of my being a blessing to him. I shall not be that. Here is my hand. Let us part on this. You'll get me out of your thoughts in a week.

[long silence — he turns, she walks over to him]

Miss Havisham What have I done? What have I done?

Pip If you mean what have you done to me, Miss Havisham, let me answer. Estella has been part of my existence ever since I first came here, the rough, common boy whose heart she wounded even then. She has been the embodiment of every graceful fancy my mind has ever known. To the last hour of my life she cannot choose but to remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But you may dismiss me from your mind and conscience, but Estella is a different case. And if you can ever undo any scrap of what you've done amiss, in keeping part of her right nature away from her, it will be better to do that than to bemoan the past through a hundred years.

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Haunting Thoughts of Fear and Uncertainty

Rosa Bud Oh, Helena, I'm frightened!

Helena Landless Mr. Jasper?

Rosa Bud He haunts my thoughts like a dreadful ghost!

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Werewolf of London

The Risks of Marriage and Fame

Dr. Wilfred Glendon My dear wife has just been scolding me.

Miss Ettie Coombes Yes, how you manage to keep your dear wife is a mystery to me. Skirmishing off the way you do. Leaving her alone, months on end.

Lisa Glendon Anyhow, I knew the risk I took when I married one of the black Glendons of Malvern.

Miss Ettie Coombes Marrying any man is risky. Marrying a famous man is kissing catastrophe.

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Great Expectations

Estella's Invitation to Affection

Estella You may kiss me if you like. … Now you are to go home.

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Great Expectations

A Reunion of Lost Connections

Estella Pip!

[startled as Pip enters Miss Havisham's dining room]

Pip Estella! … Estella! What are you doing here? I thought you were in Paris with your husband.

Estella I have no husband, Pip. Have you not heard?

Pip I've been ill, Estella. I've heard nothing.

Estella When Mr Jaggers disclosed to Bentley Drummle my true parentage, he no longer wished to have me for a wife. Well, Pip, why don't you laugh? You've every right to.

Pip I have no wish to laugh, Estella. I'm truly sorry.

Estella You've no need to pity me. It has simplified my life. There's now no need to sell the house. It is mine and I shall live here. I shall like it here, Pip. Away from the world and all its complications.

Pip Estella, how long have you been here?

Estella I don't know.

Pip Estella, you must leave this house. It's a dead house. Nothing can live here. Leave it, Estella, I beg of you.

Estella What do you mean? This is the house where I grew up. It's part of me. It's my home.

Pip It's Miss Havisham's home. But she's gone! From this house, from both of us!

Estella She is not gone. She is still here with me in this house, in this very room.

Pip Then I defy her. I have come back, Miss Havisham! I have come back! To let in the sunlight! Look, Estella! Look! Nothing but dust and decay. I've never ceased to love you, even when there seemed no hope for my love. You're part of my existence, part of myself. Estella, come with me, out into the sunlight. Look at me.

[Tears down the curtains from the windows]

Estella Pip, I'm afraid.

Pip Look at me. We belong to each other. Let's start again. Together.

Great Expectations

The Weight of Unremembered Emotions

Pip Do you remember the first time I came here? The time you made me cry?

Estella Did I? I don't remember.

Pip Not remember you made me cry?

Estella You meant nothing to me. Why should I remember? … You must know, Pip, I have no heart. Perhaps that's why I have no memory.

Pip No-one looking at you could believe that.

Estella Oh, I have a heart to be stabbed at, or shot at, but there's no sympathy there, no softness, no sentiment. If we're to be thrown much together you had better believe that at once.

Pip I can't believe it, Estella.

Estella Very well. It's said at any rate. But remember how I've been brought up and don't expect too much of me.

Bride of Frankenstein

The Dangers of Forbidden Knowledge and Creation

Henry Forget? If only I could forget but it's never out of my mind. I've been cursed for delving into the mysteries of Life. Perhaps death is sacred and I profaned it. For what a wonderful vision it was. I dreamed of being the first to give to the world the secret that God is so jealous of - the formula for life. Think of the power to create a man - and I did it. I did it! I created a man, and who knows, in time, I could have trained him to do my will. I could have bred a race. I might even have found the secret of eternal life.

Elizabeth Henry, don't say those things. Don't think them! It's blasphemous and wicked. We are not meant to know those things.

Henry It may be that I'm intended to know the secret of life. It may be part of the Divine Plan.

Elizabeth No, no! It's the Devil that prompts you. It's death, not life, that is in it all and at the end of it all...Listen Henry, while you've been lying here, tossing in your delirium, I couldn't sleep. And when you rave of your insane desire to create living men from the dust of the dead, a strange apparition has seemed to appear in the room. It comes, a figure like Death, and each time it comes more clearly - nearer. It seems to be reaching out for you, as if it would take you away from me. There it is. Look! There!

Henry I see nothing, Elizabeth. Where? There's nothing there.

Elizabeth There! There! It's coming for you! Nearer! Henry! Henry! Henry! Henry! Henry!

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