Our Mutual Friend Religion Quotes

How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #1

So, on their return, they met brisk Mrs. Milvey coming to seek them, with the agreeable intelligence that there was no fear for the village children, there being a Christian school in the village, and no worse Judaical interference with it than to plant its garden. (13.9.98)

Mrs. Milvey is pretty paranoid when it comes to Jewish people. She suspects nearly every Jewish person of trying to convert Christians to Judaism.

Quote #2

"I have had an interview to-day, Eugene, with a Jew, who seems determined to press us hard. Quite a Shylock, a quite a Patriarch." (13.10.39)

Mortimer Lightwood—like everyone else in London—suspects that Mr. Riah is cruel and greedy because he's Jewish. She even calls him Shylock, after The Merchant of Venice's villain. But little does he know that Mr. Riah is just a smokescreen for Mr. Fledgeby, the book's true moneylending villain.

Quote #3

"So I had a mind […] to come and have a talk with you about our dodging friend, the child of Israel." (18.8.14)

Mr. Fledgeby is more than happy to let people think that Mr. Riah is the cause of their problems. He'll lie right to people's faces, telling them he's trying to help them when he's actually the one calling in their debts and making them bankrupt.