Douglas William Jerrold famous quotes

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Garden #Hoe #Laughing

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Love And Marriage #Gowns #World

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Marriage #Wine #Glasses

A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend...a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Book #Blessed #Heart

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Sports #Health #Athlete

That questionable superfluity small beer.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Beer #Questionable

The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Men #May #Attorney

Humor is the harmony of the heart.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Heart #Humor #Harmony

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.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Earthquakes #Events #Rubbish

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Self #Law #Defense

God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#God #Men #Said

It takes all sorts of people to make a world.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#People #World

Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Men #Credit #Pay

What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Would Be #Cry #Poor

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Voting #Vote

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Snakes #Creeps #Slander

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#People #Lasts #Reputation

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#People #Appreciate #Hammers

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Men #Advice #Authorship

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Grumbling #Trouble #Deserve

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Gravity #Convincing

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Men #Shows #Softness

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Quality #Moral #Etiquette

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.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Men #Two #Debt

Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Snakes #May #Thorns

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Crime #Epitome #Intoxication

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Writing #Men #Long

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.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Morning #Men #World

A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other!
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Children #Light #Childhood

Nature designed us to be of good cheer.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Cheer #Good Cheer #Cheerfulness

That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Men #Knaves #Reputation

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Happiness #Happy #Gratitude

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Wise #Vote #Philanthropy

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Peace #Bayonets #Chains

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Sea #France #England

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Waiting #World #Used

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Heart #Knees

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.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Jobs #Work #People

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Peace #War #Men

The sharp employ the sharp.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Employment

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Running #People #Luck

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Time #Educational #Long

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.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Life #Rain #Passion

We love peace, but not peace at any price.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Love #Peace #Peace Love

Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Baby #Nursing #Trouble

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Quality #Quantity

A piece of simple goodness--a letter gushing from the heart; a beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring sweetness of human nature--a record of the invulnerability of man, armed with high purpose, sanctified by truth.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Beautiful #Heart #Simple

Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Growth #Opinion

Love the sea? I dote upon it--from the beach.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Beach #Ocean #Sea

A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Medicine #Pills #Bread

The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Language #Should

As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Water #Liquor #Brandy

Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Literature #Littles #Gypsy

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Coquette #Coquetry #Victim

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Moon #Men #Looks

He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Sky #Agriculture #Soil

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Gambling #Funeral #Sound

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.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Friendship #Golden #Golden Rule

We are all slaves to the shining metal.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Money #Shining #Slave

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.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Names #Slugs #World

Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Witty #Men #Fireworks

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.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Beautiful #Children #Noise

Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Strong #Memories #Fire

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!
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Song #War #Gold

Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Wish #Easy #Pleasure

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.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Curiosity #Ears #Tongue

Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Rogues #Lost

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.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#People #Good Man #Religion

The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Ink #Agents #World

Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Causes #Misery #Kind

Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Luck #May #Madness

Malice blunts the point of wit.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Wit #Malice

Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Nice #Fancy #Modesty

Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Eye #Desire #Ears

Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Jewels #Belief #Made

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Patience #Strong #Despair

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.
-- Douglas William Jerrold

#Men #Steel #Wit