Prince and the Pauper Quotes

“Loose him and forbear!”

“What dost thou know of suffering and oppression? I and my people know, but not thou.”

“When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”

“He lay down upon a sumptuous divan, and proceeded to instruct himself with honest zeal.”

“By and by Tom’s reading wrought such a strong effect upon him that he began to act the prince, unconsciously. His speech and manners became curiously ceremonious and courtly, to the vast admiration and amusement of his intimates. But Tom’s influence among these young people began to grow, now, day by day; and in time he came to be looked up to, by them, with a sort of wondering awe, as a superior being.”

“But hunger is pride’s master.”

“Explosive and was expected to blow him up.”

“I am not in the humor for it.”

“Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.”

“It does us all good to unbend sometimes.”

“Let us change the tense for convenience.”

“Foo-foo the First, King of the Mooncalves!”

“Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.”

“When I am come to mine own again, I will always honor little children, remembering how that these trusted me and believed me in my time of trouble; whilst they that were older, and thought themselves wiser, mocked at me and held me for a liar.”

“What God wills, will happen; thou canst not hurry it, thou canst not alter it; therefore wait, and be patient”

“But when weariness finally forced him to be silent, he was no longer of use to his tormentors, and they sought amusement elsewhere.”

“By and by Tom’s reading wrought such a strong effect upon him that he began to act the prince, unconsciously. His speech and manners became curiously ceremonious and courtly, to the vast admiration and amusement of his intimates. But Tom’s influence among these young people began to grow, now, day by day; and in time he came to be looked up to, by them, with a sort of wondering awe, as a superior being.”

“And when he awoke in the morning and looked upon the wretchedness about him, his dream had had its usual effect: it had intensified the sordidness of his surroundings a thousandfold.”

“The world is made wrong; kings should go to school to their own laws, at times, and so learn mercy.”

“Their garment? Have they but one?” “Ah, good your Worship, what would they do with more? Truly they have not two bodies each.”

“Yes, King Edward VI lived only a few years, poor boy, but he lived them worthily.”

“That which I have seen, in that little moment, will never go out from my memory, but will abide there; and I shall see it all the days, and dream of it all the nights, till I die. Would God I had been blind!”

“The law roasted her to death at a slow fire.”

“Yet little Tom was not unhappy. He had a hard time of it but did not know it. It was the sort of time that all the Offal Court boys had, therefore he supposed it was the correct and comfortable thing.”

“Five and twenty sturdy budges, bulks, files, clapperdogeons and maunders, counting the dells and doxies and other morts. Most are here, the rest are wandering eastward, along the winter lay. We follow at dawn.”