My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.

My uncle, gentlemen, could say nothing; he was so very much astonished The queerest thing of all, was, that although there was such a crowd of persons, and although fresh faces were pouring in, every moment, there was no telling where they came from. They seemed to start up, in some strange manner, from the ground, or the air, and disappear in the same way.

Come, then," returned the nephew gaily. "What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough.

Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea.

... The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it.

Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

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.