Workhouse Quotes

Please, sir, I want some more.

If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.

Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.

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 out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

Oliver Twist has asked for more!

It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.

No inmate of a workhouse is to be compelled to attend any religious service contrary to his principles ; nor is any child to be brought up in a creed other than that of its parents.

I collect things called 'samplers' which are Victorian pieces of needlework usually done by children in a workhouse to show that they have a skill which can be used in service, stitching household linen or that kind of thing. I think they're very humble and very beautiful.

My sister women, those struggling with social problems, and those who slave all their lives long for a community – shop, factory and domestic slaves, earning barely a subsistence, and thrown aside to death or the parish when they are no longer profitable – mothers, bearing and rearing children, seeing them go forth… and spending their own last years, lonely and unconsidered in the cheerless wards of the workhouse.