Douglas William Jerrold Quotes

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

Douglas William Jerrold
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
Honest bread is very well—it's the butter that makes the temptation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Douglas William Jerrold
A blessed companion is a book,—a book that fitly chosen is a life-long friend.

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The life of the husbandman,—a life fed by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven.

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

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

Douglas William Jerrold
Dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth.

Douglas William Jerrold
Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.

Douglas William Jerrold
He was so good he would pour rose-water on a toad.

Douglas William Jerrold
That fellow would vulgarize the day of judgment.

Douglas William Jerrold
The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.

Douglas William Jerrold
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