Henry Mayhew Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling.”

“There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures.”

“But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system.”

“Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.”

“The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.”

“The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis.”