They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
Interpretation
The quote expresses deep disdain for certain people, suggesting they are unworthy of even the lowest respect.
In this quote, Charles Dickens uses extreme language to illustrate the moral degradation of certain individuals, depicting them as so vile that they are not deserving of even the most trivial forms of acceptance. It reflects on societal values and the standards of decency and honor, serving as a critique of character and integrity in social interactions.
In practice
In a discussion about moral character, this quote by Dickens might be used to exemplify the need for ethical standards.
I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.
Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians.
I can see his pride _x000D_ _x000D_ Peep through each part of him.
Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.
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