Douglas Jerrold Quotes
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We are all slaves to the shining metal.
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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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That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
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Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.
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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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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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Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.
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As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.
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Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.
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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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A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.
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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 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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Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.
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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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Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.
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Nature designed us to be of good cheer.
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Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.
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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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What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!
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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.