5 Charles Dickens Quotes on Poverty

Charles Dickens quotes on poverty

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

24. We still leave unblotted in the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of successive ages, the just and wholesome law which declares that the sturdy felon shall be fed and clothed, and that the penniless debtor shall be left to die of starvation and nakedness. This is no fiction.

25. Please, sir, I want some more.

58. To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things-but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.

106. It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.