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After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
Douglas William Jerrold
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
Douglas William Jerrold
The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
Douglas William Jerrold
Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.
Douglas William Jerrold
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason – the lawyers didn’t make it.
Douglas William Jerrold
The surest way to hit a woman’s heart is to take aim kneeling.
Douglas William Jerrold
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one – it flies as well as creeps.
Douglas William Jerrold
Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.
Douglas William Jerrold
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
I would like to have a second chance at my first love.
Douglas William Jerrold
Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.
Douglas William Jerrold
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
Douglas William Jerrold
Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.
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
Love the sea? I dote upon it–from the beach.
Douglas William Jerrold
The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.
Douglas William Jerrold
Love’s like the measles – all the worse when it comes late in life.
Douglas William Jerrold
We love peace, but not peace at any price.
Douglas William Jerrold
Religion’s in the heart, not in the knees.
Douglas William Jerrold
Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.
Douglas William Jerrold
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
A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman’s softness.
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
Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
Douglas William Jerrold
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.
Douglas William Jerrold