8 Charles Dickens Quotes on Class

Charles Dickens quotes on class

5. O let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations.

20. 'It's a wery remarkable circumstance, sir', said Sam, 'that poverty and oysters seems to go together.'

36. May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

69. Rich folks may ride on camels, but it an't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye. That is my comfort, and I hope I knows it.

118. 'Papa is a preferable mode of address,' observed Mrs General. 'Father is rather vulgar, my dear. The word Papa, besides, gives a pretty form to the lips. Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism are all very good words for the lips: especially prunes and prism. You will find it serviceable, in the formation of a demeanour, if you sometimes say to yourself in company - on entering a room, for instance - Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, prunes and prism.

119. Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

145. There is no contemporary English writer whose works are read so generally through the whole house, who can give pleasure to the servants as well as to the mistress, to the children as well as to the master.

149. He had a large loving mind and the strongest sympathy with the poorer classes. He felt sure a better feeling, and much greater union of classes, would take place in time. And I pray earnestly it may.