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