Douglas Jerrold Quotes
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~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I was a grave digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the temptation.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
The life of the husbandman,--a life led by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
A Conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon, out of respect for that ancient institution, the old one.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one--it flies as well as creeps.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
A piece of simple goodness--a letter gushing from the heart; a beautiful unstudied vindication of the worth and untiring sweetness of human nature--a record of the invulnerability of man, armed with high purpose, sanctified by truth.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
It takes all sorts of people to make a world.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
I hope that no American . . . will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
Australia is so kind that, just tickle her with a hoe, and she laughs with a harvest.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her, like a banknote, for two twenties.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
Love's like the measles all the worse when it comes late in life.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
Love the sea? I dote upon it from the beach.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
Some people's hearts are shrunk in them, like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.
~ Douglas Jerrold Quote
