- Miss Havisham: You cold, cold heart!
- Estella: Do you reproach ME of being cold? I learned your lessons. I am what you have made me.
- Miss Havisham: So proud!
- Estella: Who taught me to be proud? Who told me that daylight would blight me, that I may not go out in it and now I cannot? I have never once been unfaithful to you or to your 'schooling'. I have never shown any weakness that I can charge myself with!
- Miss Havisham: Would it be weakness to return respect? To return love?
- Estella: 'Love'?
- Pip: It seems that these past few years I have been harbouring an illusion. More than one, in fact... And you humoured them. You led me on...
- Miss Havisham: Yes, I let you go on.
- Pip: Was that kind?
- Miss Havisham: Who am I, for God's sake, that I should be kind?
- Herbert Pocket: [after meeting Magwitch at Pip's apartment] "Have I the pleasure of meeting Mr. Joe Gargery, then? You are not as Pip describes you."