Top 82 Quotes & Sayings by Douglas William Jerrold
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.
A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.
The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
We love peace, but not peace at any price.
The sharp employ the sharp.
Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.
Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.
Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.
A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to his loving Pythias. A book that — at a touch — pours its heart into our own.
Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.
Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.
It takes all sorts of people to make a world.
Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.
Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.
Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
Malice blunts the point of wit.
Quality, not quantity, is my measure.
Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes,
with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.
Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.
A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.
There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.
The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.
What a fine-looking thing is war!
Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
I would like to have a second chance at my first love.
Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.
Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.
Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.
Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.
O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.
Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.
The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney.
Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.
We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price.
Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.
Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.
Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.
Humor is the harmony of the heart.
We are all slaves to the shining metal.
Love the sea? I dote upon it--from the beach.
If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to celebrate the event.
Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.
The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.
Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.
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