Douglas William Jerrold Quotes
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A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.
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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!
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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.
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Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.
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Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.
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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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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.
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The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney.
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We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price.
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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.
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The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
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Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.
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Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.
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After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
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Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.
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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
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God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.
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Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.
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Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.
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The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.
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A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.
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Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.
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If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.
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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.
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Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.
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Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.
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Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
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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!
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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.
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The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.
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