Douglas William Jerrold's Quotes

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

The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

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.

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

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

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

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

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

The sharp employ the sharp.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.