Douglas Jerrold Quotes
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There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.
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Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.
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We are all slaves to the shining metal.
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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.
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Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.
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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!
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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.
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Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.
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Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.
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As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.
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After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
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A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.
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A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.
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Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.
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Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.
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Nature designed us to be of good cheer.
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Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.
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Quality, not quantity, is my measure.
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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.
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Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.
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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
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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.
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Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.
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Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.