Workhouse Quotes
7 quotes by 7 authors
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Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from…
— David Lloyd George
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How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!
— Thomas Jefferson
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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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During my incarceration Mother visited me. She had in some way managed to leave the workhouse and was making an effort to establish a home…
— Charlie Chaplin
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Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of 'real' rich-country…
— James Fallows
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And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he…
— Charles Dickens
Who Wrote These Workhouse Quotes
7 authors contributed a total of 7 Workhouse Quotes as follows: