Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

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The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.

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Man, if he would live, must worship. He looks around, and what to him, within the vision of his life, is the greatest and the best, that he falls down and does reverence to.

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If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

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The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.

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In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against which to contrast them. Of late I have done some systematic reading of ladies papers. The plain girl submits to a course of "treatment." In eighteen months she bursts upon Society an acknowledged beauty.

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Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago, has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

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Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.

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It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.

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A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.

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Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards.

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Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.

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It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.

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I do think that of all the silly, irritating tomfoolishness by which we are plagued, this "weather-forecast" fraud is about the most aggravating. It "forecasts" precisely what happened yesterday or the day before, and precisely the opposite of what is going to happen today.

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Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible.

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I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

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There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.

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There are many families where the whole interest of life is centered upon the dog.

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The less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be.

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Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.

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It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is seasick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole boat-loads of them; but I never met a man yet, on land, who had ever known at all what it was to be seasick.

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If a man stopped me in the street and demanded of me my watch, I should refuse to give it to him. If he threatened to take it by force, I feel I should, though not a fighting man, do my best to protect it. If, on the other hand, he should assert his intention of trying to obtain it by means of an action in any court of law, I should take it out of my pocket and hand it to him, and think I had got off cheaply.

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When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

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Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board).

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Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.

Jerome K. Jerome
Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house-out of place and in the way.

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Seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes - some half-forgotten nook, hidden away by the fairies, out of reach of the noisy world - some quaint-perched eyrie on the cliffs of Time, from whence the surging waves of the nineteenth century would sound far-off and faint.

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It's really extraordinary what a variety of ways of loving there must be. We all do it as it was never done before.

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Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God

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Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.

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A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull.

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