Charles Dickens Quotes About Poverty

• 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.

  Charles Dickens

  Country, War, Rain

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Barnaby Rudge: And, Hard Times”, p.90

• This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

  Charles Dickens

  World, Poverty, Wealth

• To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

  Charles Dickens

  Death, Eye, Giving

• Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.

  Charles Dickens

  Oysters, Together, Poverty

  'Pickwick Papers' (1837) ch. 22 (Sam Weller)

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