`Bah, humbug! Fools wishing me a Merry Christmas should be forced to sit on cushions stuffed with holly leaves or boiled with their own Christmas puddings.'

An escaped convict threatens to eat young Pip's heart for breakfast. The ghostly Miss Havisham invites Pip to her eerie home. A mysterious benefactor makes him suddenly wealthy. Pip's life will never be the same again.

`You must hear my tale. You must hear my terrible, terrible tale.'

`I must warn you that you might guess twenty things without guessing correctly.'

'It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done.'