Best 75 quotes of Douglas William Jerrold on MyQuotes

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.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other!

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

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.

A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.

As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.

Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.

Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

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.

God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

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.

He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.

Humor is the harmony of the heart.

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

It takes all sorts of people to make a world.

I would like to have a second chance at my first love.

Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.

Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.

Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.

Love the sea? I dote upon it--from the beach.

Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.

Malice blunts the point of wit.

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.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.

Nature designed us to be of good cheer.

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

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.

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.