Douglas William Jerrold Quotes

"Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together."
- Douglas William Jerrold
(Related: Time)

"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens."
- Douglas William Jerrold
(Related: Happiness, Gardens, Strangers)

"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."
- Douglas William Jerrold
(Related: Man, Passion, Rain)

"Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life."
- Douglas William Jerrold
(Related: Life, Love)

"Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass."
- Douglas William Jerrold
(Related: Marriage, Wine)

"The best thing I know between France and England is the sea."
- Douglas William Jerrold
(Related: EnglFrance, Sea)

"The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon."
- Douglas William Jerrold

"The sharp employ the sharp."
- Douglas William Jerrold

"The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling."
- Douglas William Jerrold
(Related: Heart, Woman)

"There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body."
- Douglas William Jerrold
(Related: Peace, War, Body, Living, Man)

"We love peace, but not peace at any price."
- Douglas William Jerrold
(Related: Love, Peace)

"In this world truth can wait; she is used to it."
- Douglas William Jerrold
(Related: Truth, World)

"Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it."
- Douglas William Jerrold
(Related: People, Luck)