Great Expectations (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.1 (2011)

Gillian Anderson: Miss Havisham

Quotes 

• [Miss Havisham shows Pip a butterfly collection] 

  Miss Havisham : Look closer if you wish. My brother's collection. He went to the furthest reaches of the earth in his quest for the purest specimen of beauty. And when he found it, he stuck a pin through its heart. He's dead now. Cholera. In the tropics. Struck down in his relentless pursuit of beauty. Perhaps it was beauty's revenge to stop his heart when he had stopped so many others.

• Miss Havisham : Do you think beauty is a destroyer of men, Pip?

  Young Pip : I can't be sure, Miss.

  Miss Havisham : We must hope so.