Douglas William Jerrold Quotes
Top 70 wise famous quotes and sayings by Douglas William Jerrold
Douglas William Jerrold Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.
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.
Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.
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.
one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.
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.
a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend ... a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.
What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!
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.
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.
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.