- Jaggers: [to Pip] For whose sake would you reveal this?...
- Pip: For Estella's sake! If Drummle knew, he'd never marry her!
- Jaggers: Ah, you'd save her, is that it? You'd drag her into disgrace after twenty years? She's chosen her own life and Drummle - remember that! Oh, if you must save someone, I think you might look a little closer to home.
- [first lines]
- Pip: 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.
- Estella: You're smaller than a weasel for your age. I am older than you are.
- Miss Havisham: If he's old enough for you to insult him, he's old enough for you to teach him. Teach him.
- Miss Havisham: Do you like him better now, Estella?
- Estella: I used to despise him. And now I merely hate him.