Workhouses Quotes
9 quotes by 9 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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People reared in workhouses, as you are aware, are no great acquisition to the community and they have no ideas whatsoever of civic responsibilities. As…
— W. T. Cosgrave
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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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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these…
— Lady Gregory
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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 Workhouses Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 9 Workhouses Quotes as follows: