Charles Dickens Quotes About Crime

• Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Home, Dark

  Charles Dickens “Oliver Twist”, Lulu.com

• My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

  Charles Dickens

  Crime, Victim, Young

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.116

• The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

  Charles Dickens

  Wine, Men, Envy

  Charles Dickens (1856). “Household Words”, p.504

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