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Quotation from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
“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.”
Great Expectations, Chapter I (Project Gutenberg #1400, 1867 edition text)
The opening sentences of the novel, before the convict starts up from among the graves.
Citation: "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." — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter I (Project Gutenberg #1400, 1867 edition text). (id great-expectations-q1)
Portrait: Greatexpectations vol1, Chapman & Hall, Public domain.
