Quotes by Dickens, Charles

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not look >>

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctua >>

Minerva House was a finishing establishment for young ladies, where so >>

Quotations about Poverty and The Poor

No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. >>

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness. >>

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred >>

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.

Dickens, Charles